Mar Austral Origin · Patagonia, Chile

The sea is not learned. It is inherited.

The story behind each product that arrives at your table began more than four decades ago, in northern waters and inevitably ended in Patagonia.

Our History

More than 30 years within the sea

We are not a company that one day decided to export seafood. We are people who grew up looking at the ocean, who learned to respect it through freediving, and who dedicated their entire professional lives to understanding what it means to bring the sea to the table with honesty.

Every product we send carries decades of craft. There are no shortcuts in what we do — only accumulated knowledge, precise cold chain management, and an extraction process that respects Patagonia as it deserves.

  • +30 Years in the fishing industry
  • −25°C IQF preservation temperature
  • 10 Patagonian cuts & presentations
  • 3 Continents of destination

North to south · The founder's journey

An entire life within the cold

The beginnings · Vallenar

Growing with the coastline

In northern Chile, summers were lived at sea. A father who was a freediver and spearfisherman was the first school. There was no oxygen, no shortcuts — only the surface, the lungs, and what the sea had to give.

III Region · Coastal

Training · Santiago, Providencia

Fishing Technician: the craft with its own name

At CIPTER Institute he studied a career that nobody chooses by chance: Fishing Technician, specializing in frozen goods and preservation. The vocation already existed — the training gave him the technical language to practice it.

Processes · Cold · Preservation

First job · Freirina, III Region

Head of production at 21 years old

His first résumé took him directly to a sea urchin processing plant. At 21 he was already leading production, exporting fresh chilled sea urchin in wooden molds and containers, directly to Japan by air. Seven to eight years perfecting the most demanding product in the world.

Sea urchin · Japan · Export

Expansion · Chiloé · Puerto Montt · Ancud · Quellón

The south as a second home

Patagonia was absorbing him. Years in Chiloé working with sea urchin, Magellanic mussels for Europe, and learning that the south has its own quality rules. There is no margin for error when cold is the only guarantee.

Chiloé · Mytilus · Europe

Independence · Puerto Natales · Asian markets

20 years building independently

The first independent venture was to Puerto Natales with two partners and the same conviction as always: exportable quality sea urchin. Then came the Koreans, the Chinese, the manta ray, the sea cucumber, the crab, the king crab. Each product, a new market. Each market, a trust earned.

Korea · China · Patagonia

Today · Huichas Island, Patagonia

Mar Austral Origin: everything converges here

From Huichas Island, in the heart of Patagonia, our plant operates today. King crab, crab, mussel, fillet — processed with the rigor of three decades and the certainty that the world wants exactly what Patagonia has to offer.

Huichas · IQF · Mar Austral Origin

What defines us

«Patagonia delivers a variety of products that the world is looking for — and we have spent 30 years learning how to deliver them with dignity.»

When someone in Europe, Asia, or North America opens a Mar Austral Origin product, they are receiving something more than exceptional seafood. They are receiving the result of an entire life dedicated to understanding the sea, respecting the cold chain, and believing that Patagonia deserves to be on the finest tables in the world.

What we export

Patagonia in every presentation

Ten cuts. Two emblematic species. One single standard: the one the world demands.

Patagonian king crab IQF

Whole

King crab meat

Meat

King crab cluster

CLUSTER

King Crab Meat Decorated

PREMIUM - DECORATED

Patagonian Spider Crab IQF

WHOLE - WHOLE

Spider Crab Meat

Meat

Decorated Spider Crab Meat

Premium · Decorated

Spider Crab Cluster

Cluster

Cocktail Claws

Claws · Cocktail

Jumbo Claws

Claws · Jumbo

Mar Austral Origin · FOB Chilean Ports

Patagonia is ready for you.

Thirty years of experience, ten products and a single commitment: that what arrives at your table is exactly what the Southern Sea has to offer.