Sea Pact intends to promote sustainability and controlled fishing activities. (Photo Credit: Sea Pact)

North American seafood industry leaders unite to found sustainable fishing venture

UNITED STATES
Wednesday, July 24, 2013, 01:30 (GMT + 9)

Six US and Canadian firms have joined forced to create Sea Pact, an alliance of seafood industry companies to promote aquaculture and sustainable fishing.

Sea Pact's long term goal is to establish a solid sustainable seafood industry and to improve the oceans ecosystem by balancing fish stocks with controlled fishing practices.

The six firms involved in the project are Albion Fisheries, Fortune Fish & Gourmet, Ipswich Shellfish Group, Santa Monica Seafood, Seacore Seafood and Seattle Fish Co.

Logan Kock, Vice President of Strategic Purchasing & Responsible Sourcing at Santa Monica Seafood, commented, “Santa Monica Seafood realized that to be able to support the improvement of fishing and aquaculture practices around the world we could not rely on the efforts of our company alone and that we would need support from other like-minded companies in the seafood industry to help create the scale necessary for meaningful improvements to be realized.”

”We are excited about Sea Pact’s ability to generate impactful change by leveraging our combined influence and strength to produce more sustainable seafood options for the future. I am positive that together, our geographically diverse international membership, can create an industry driven difference to the fishing and aquaculture practices and systems that we source from,” said Guy Dean, CSO at Albion Fisheries Ltd.

Sea Pact obtains fiscal sponsorship from nonprofit New Venture Fund and sustainability counsel from non-profit organizations FishWise and Sustainable Fisheries Partnership (SFP).

 “FishWise commends the founding members of Sea Pact for their leadership and for exemplifying that players of any stage within the supply chain have the ability to contribute to a more sustainable future,” remarked Meghan Frolli, Project Director at FishWise.

The initiative will take into account the ecological impact their fish sourcing decisions will have and it also hopes to educate the general public about responsible sustainable fishing issues.
 

By Gabriela Raffaele
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www.seafood.media

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