Career
Ernesto Rouquaud had reached the Río de la Plata in 1841, during the government of Juan Manuel de Rosas. During his early years in Argentina, Rouquaud had an industrial establishment in the suburb of Louisiana Boca where processed livestock products. In 1872, the President Domingo Faustino Sarmiento granted to Ernest Rouquaud, a concession in Santa Cruz.
Rouquaud aspired to colonize and exploit marine resources of the South Argentine.
In Patagonian territory, The Rouquaud family, planned to install a fishery industry, plus two establishments for the manufacture of oil and the import.