Ocean passion turns into career for Claudia

BOULDER — How does a coal miner’s daughter from western Pennsylvania get into the business of selling frozen farm-raised seafood dinners?

For Jacqueline Claudia, founder and CEO of Boulder-based Love The Wild, it’s about parlaying her childhood passion for the ocean into her everyday work. She grew up with dreams of exploring and saving the ocean.

“I’m a fish nerd,” she explained.

But she remembers being turned off by what passed for frozen seafood when she was a child: Heavily-breaded fish sticks of an unknown origin. She avoided them, despite her love of the ocean.