My Food Job Rocks!

Ep. 217 – How to Commercialize an Invasive Fish with Michael Mitchell, co-founder and CEO of Acari Fish

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Synopsis

After the pandemic hit, I started to post in a few food startup groups if they’d like to be interviewed. It was my impulsive way of giving back. My Food Job Rocks now does have a bit of a barrier of entry just because I get so many PR inquiries so this was an opportunity to ask businesses who might not have made it, about what’s going on in their world. So I have a couple of interviews where I talk to businesses that are a bit new and interview them. This is one of them and I learned a ton from this. I think it’s always refreshing interviewing people who’ve just started because the idea of how they started and what resources they use is just so fresh in their heads. Today we have Michael Mitchell, from Acari Fish. This is a bit of a short episode but it brings some interesting perspectives. How do you turn trash into treasure? In this case, Michael shares with me the devil fish of Mexico and how he found an opportunity to turn it into Jerky. Properly named, El Diablito Jerky. I also found it fascinating the g