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Chris Kastern is based in Cape Town and has an extensive career in the responsible sourcing of seafood and working with small-scale fisheries. His work in these fields has spanned over two decades across three sectors, giving him a unique breadth of experience.<\/p>\n

Chris began working as a fish trader in the local South African seafood industry in 2002, dealing predominantly with small-scale fishery catches for ten years. He then moved to WWF South Africa in 2013, where, as Seafood Market Transformation Manager, he led a team working on building value chain incentives to support marine conservation. Since 2018, Chris has served as Director of Growth at ABALOBI ICT4Fisheries, focusing on engaging with the small-scale fisheries sector from a tech and social enterprise perspective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94042,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","speaker_category":[119,9],"class_list":["post-94041","speaker","type-speaker","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","speaker_category-119","speaker_category-speaker-category"],"metadata":{"speaker_id":["4c78a126-f586-446c-b712-5284e1755c31"],"speaker_email_address":["chris@abalobi.org"],"speaker_first_name":["Chris"],"speaker_last_name":["Kastern"],"speaker_full_name":["Chris Kastern"],"speaker_company_name":["ABALOBI"],"speaker_job_title":["Director of Growth"],"speaker_updated_at":["2026-03-24T21:10:29.533Z"],"_thumbnail_id":["94042"],"speaker_photo_url":["https:\/\/content-cdn.sessionboard.com\/event-files%2FGIXNDPmSDuVl5q9jdfeu_20220924_113223.jpg"],"speaker_sessions":[94043],"_eael_post_view_count":["257"],"_elementor_page_assets":["a:0:{}"]},"thumbnail":"\"\"","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seafoodexpo.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/94041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seafoodexpo.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seafoodexpo.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speaker"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seafoodexpo.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seafoodexpo.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seafoodexpo.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seafoodexpo.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"speaker_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seafoodexpo.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker_category?post=94041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}