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Perry Broderick, Sustainability Consultant

4/14/2021

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We’re excited to welcome Perry Broderick as a sustainability consultant to Sea Pact’s Advisory Board! As Communications and Systems director for Ocean Outcomes, Perry not only provides us with a connection to an innovative organization, but he also brings a unique set of talents and experiences to our work.
As one of the founding members of Ocean Outcomes, Perry has played a leading role across the landscape of sustainable seafood over the past decade. Prior to the launch of Ocean Outcomes in 2015, Perry worked with the Wild Salmon Center on sustainable salmon fishery initiatives across the Pacific Rim.
Perry also works hard to keep himself firmly rooted in local fisheries. As a second-generation Bristol Bay fisherman, Perry is tuned into the benefits a well-managed fishery can bring.  Endless mid-summer days spent working the rich waters of Nushagak Bay with his family serve as an annual reminder that sustainability brings more than economic stability – well-run fisheries also help us engage with the natural world and connect with tradition, culture, and history.
Responsible, science-based management also preserves the resource for the next generation. A keen reminder as Perry and his wife welcome their first child in May – probably a little early to start fishing this season, but next summer he is looking forward to breaking in the new Bristol Bay recruit!
Perry’s dream of a sustainable future echoes Ocean Outcomes’ vision of “...healthy aquatic ecosystems, a plentiful and profitable wild seafood supply, and thriving fishing communities.” How do we get there? Perry thinks it looks something like this:

  • Global fisheries transformed by science-based management policies that are effectively enforced
  • Equitable access to resources for all people
  • Gradual transition to a less impactful diet of more seafood and plants
At Sea Pact we’re focused on a similar vision, and we look forward to continued collaboration to get us there!
Learn more about the work Perry and the crew at Ocean Outcomes do at: www.oceanoutcomes.org

Perry also offered a great book recommendation. Pick up a copy of Ian Urbina’s The Outlaw Ocean, which Perry suggests as a “rigorous and academic approach” to uncovering many of the ocean-focused issues we are working to address.

“In this utterly groundbreaking, often disturbing book, Ian Urbina has put his life on the line to lay bare the stunning inhumanity that reigns unchecked over two-thirds of Earth’s surface. This constantly astonishing book is seasoned with rare heroes—the author himself among them—who at great risk have weaponized their lifelong quest to shine righteous light and apply justice to the cruel anarchy that reigns over the majority of the planet.”
—Carl Safina, author of Beyond Words and Song for the Blue Ocean

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Kvaroy Arctic re: the SXSW Aquaculture Panel and Virtual Dinner

3/18/2021

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Sea Pact is proud to have supported the SXSW Online 2021 Featured Session: Aquaculture, Food Systems, and Climate Change, in alignment with our focus on the crucial role of increased responsible aquaculture for healthy people and a healthy planet. In our collective reality of the global crises of COVID-19 and Climate Change, Sea Pact members and stakeholders across the whole diverse seafood supply chain must work together now and maintain our responsibility to provide a healthy and sustainable protein supply.
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Kvarøy Arctic Hosts Thought Leader Dinner at SXSW with Chef Andrew Zimmern

(Indre Kvarøy, Norway; March 15, 2021)—On March 18, Kvarøy Arctic joins Chef Andrew Zimmern and 30 thought leaders for a private virtual aquaculture dinner as part of SXSW Online, the virtual version of Austin’s acclaimed in-person gathering of film, interactive media, music, climate activism, and more. Hosted on the heels of a lively and informative public panel discussion on March 16 entitled “Aquaculture, Food Systems and Climate Change,” the March 18 dinner will offer a taste of Kvarøy Arctic salmon and Riverence trout as well as an opportunity for guests to connect and have impactful conversation about aquaculture’s role in combating climate change.

SXSW passholders are invited to reserve a spot for the panel discussion, which will include a live Q&A, hosted within the “Climate and Social Action” schedule of events with guest speakers:

  • Andrew Zimmern, Chef and CEO of Food Works, Inc.
  • David E. Kelley, Riverence Founder and TV Writer & Producer
  • Alexandra Cousteau, Explorer, Ocean Advocate, and President & Co-Founder of Oceans 2050
  • Sarah Redmond, Organic Seaweed Farmer from Springtide Seaweed

Speakers will discuss aquaculture as a powerful force for ecological and social good as the world’s fastest growing food production system. Topics explored will also center on aquaculture’s ability to combat the global climate crisis, the global health crisis, and the challenges humanity faces as the global food system is transformed.

Continuing the conversation in a more intimate and interactive setting, Kvarøy Arctic invited a list of 30 thought leaders to participate in a private virtual dinner on March 18 catered by Bravo: Top Chef “Fan Favorite” Chef and Restaurateur Fabio Viviani. The guest list includes aquaculture industry professionals from various sectors (feed, farming, distributors and technology partners), as well as journalists, ocean activists, restaurateurs, and entrepreneurs. The attendees are senior members of companies including: Aquabyte, Aspen Institute, Bloomin’ Brands, CBS News, Compass Group, The Conservation Fund Freshwater Institute, Corbion, Eater.com, Euclid Fish, Global Aquaculture Alliance, The Hollywood Reporter, KeHe, Los Angeles Times, Seafood Source, Seattle Fish, San Francisco Chronicle, Santa Monica Seafood, Stavis Seafood, and others.

The dinner will open with remarks from the panelists before guests are welcomed into more intimate discussion groups. All attendees will receive a meal kit and recipe cards prior to the event featuring sustainably raised fish paired with Cobb wines, which they can prepare to enjoy during the conversation:

Lightly Roasted Riverence Trout
with rosemary & olive oil focaccia bread and dill tzatziki Paired with: 2018 H. Klopp Chardonnay, Sonoma Coast


Kvarøy Arctic Salmon Poké
with chilies, soy glaze, green onions, and whipped cauliflower purée Paired with: 2016 Coastlands, Old Firs Block Pinot Noir, Sonoma Coast


Espresso and Caramel Tiramisu, White Chocolate Crunch


“SXSW has immense potential as a platform to educate and inform the opinions of the thought leaders, policymakers, and writers who wield the power to reshape public opinion on aquaculture and move the industry forward,” says Kvarøy Arctic Strategic Development Officer Jennifer Bushman. “This year, fish and seafood will be brought center stage with a featured panel of experts and dinner with the best minds in the industry, all focused on the future of aquaculture and the strength we have to make a positive impact on economies, the environment, and our global food system. We are grateful to have the support of all those participating in these events, and to Seapact for their support in getting this conversation to this important stage.”


To register for the SXSW panel, visit SXSW Online.


About Kvarøy Arctic
Kvarøy Arctic is a third-generation Atlantic salmon farm on the Island of Kvarøy along Norway’s Arctic Circle. Led by CEO Alf-Gøran Knutsen, Production Manager Gjermund Olsen, and Operations Manager Håvard Olsen, the Kvarøy Arctic team is ushering in a new era of sustainability for salmon farming as a net producer of fish protein with a commitment to traceability and transparency through IBM blockchain technology.


Kvarøy Arctic is the first farmed finfish to carry the Fair Trade USA seal, and is BAP, ASC and Global G.A.P. certified. The salmon has the merroir of Norway’s cold, clear waters with delicate marine flavors and slight brininess. It is one of a small number of farm-raised fish certified by the American Heart Association’s® Heart-Check program. Kvarøy Arctic is actively expanding its U.S. retail presence. It is currently available through Pod Foods, at restaurants, for direct delivery on FultonFishMarket.com, and at retail through select retailers like Cherry Hill Market, Cox Farms Market, Acorn Acres, and Whole Foods Market U.S. locations.


Learn about the heritage of Kvarøy Arctic by visiting www.KvaroyArctic.com, Instagram @kvaroyarctic, Facebook @KvaroyArctic, and Twitter @KvaroyArctic, and use #TasteTheArctic.
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SENA Reconnect 2021

3/18/2021

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​Sea Pact members will be presenting Prioritizing Responsible Seafood in Uncertain Times at the digital seafood conference for North America, @Seafood Expo North America/Seafood Processing North America Reconnect  March 15-19. If you have an interest in exploring the challenges of economic, social and environmental sustainability throughout COVID-19, make sure to attend this session. You can learn more about the event at https://bit.ly/3iWfaEy #SENA21
I hope you’ll join me online for @Seafood Expo North America/Seafood Processing North America Reconnect - where Sea Pact members will be speaking on March 16! Sea Pact is honored to be chosen to be a part of this new and exciting digital conference that provides seafood buyers, suppliers and stakeholders a platform for in depth industry content, emerging trends and networking. We hope to see you there! https://bit.ly/3iWfaEy  #SENA21

Event website | seafoodexpo.com/north-america-reconnect
Event Twitter handle | @SeafoodExpo_NA
Event Facebook page | Seafood Expo North America| @seafoodexponorthamerica
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SXSW Online 2021 Featured Session: Aquaculture, Food Systems, and Climate Change

3/18/2021

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Aquaculture, Food Systems and Climate Change is a Featured Session on March 16 at SXSW Online: March 16-20, 2021.
Food is simply the biggest lever we have to combat climate change and improve the health and wellbeing of the planet’s growing population. Aquaculture, the farming of aquatic animals and plants, is vital as the planet’s fastest growing food production system. Seafood is one of the healthiest proteins to consume and one of the most efficient and sustainable to produce. Done well, aquaculture can be a powerful force for ecological and social good. The moderated panel of experts will discuss aquaculture’s key role. Join award-winning ocean activist Alexandra Cousteau; four-time James Beard Award-winning TV personality and chef Andrew Zimmern; multi award-winning writer and producer David E. Kelley; and organic seaweed farmer and entrepreneur Sarah Redmond to explore the context of the global climate crisis and aquaculture’s key role in transforming our food systems.
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Sea Pact Announces New Board Chair

1/7/2021

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January 7, 2021 – Sea Pact, a pre-competitive collaboration of ten leading American and Canadian seafood companies working together to drive industry sustainability progress, have a new chair for their Advisory Board. Mary Smith, Director of Sustainability at Inland Seafood Corporation has been elected as the new chair at Sea Pact’s virtual annual meeting which is taking place virtually this year over two days, January 5 & 12, 2021. “Kicking off 2021, Sea Pact is delighted to announce Mary’s selection by her peers to this leadership role,” said Rob Johnson, Managing Director of Sea Pact.
Mary Smith has been the Sustainability Director at Inland Seafood for the past 3 years. Prior to her position at Inland, Smith held marketing and sustainability roles at Santa Monica Seafood and The Plitt Company. Inland Seafood, based in Atlanta, Georgia, is the largest full-line processor and distributor of more than 2,000 fresh, frozen, smoked and specialty seafood items in the Southeast United States.
“I am thrilled to serve as the chair of Sea Pact’s board, especially during such an interesting time in our industry,” stated Smith. “Sea Pact’s focus on pre-competitive collaboration to support member companies and positively impact the global seafood industry has never been more relevant. I believe strongly in the transformative power of this organization and the enthusiasm of the people who continue to build it. The opportunity to work with passionate and dedicated colleagues who share the dame goals is so rewarding both professionally and personally and I am excited about what’s next for all of us.”
“Sea Pact’s innovative seafood business collaboration model continues to advance as a dynamic industry leadership platform, as we reinforce our resolve to work together to face the unprecedented challenges of COVID-19 and work to catalyze an industry-wide transformation to a more sustainable future in seafood,” stated Johnson. “I’m very excited to have Mary elected to the role as chair of the Advisory Board for a two year term, and look forward to working closely with her to drive new initiatives of our organization forward. We expect her passionate energy, deep supply chain and sustainability knowledge and experience, bright ideas, and strong commitment to the industry will bring great value to our collective efforts and outcomes.”
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Sea Pact’s annual meeting will establish next steps for the coming year focused on elevating sustainability in the seafood industry by engaging in innovative projects, collaborative partnerships, and transformational processes to drive positive change in fisheries and aquaculture systems across the global seafood supply chain.

About Sea Pact:
Together, Sea Pact members collective buying power would make them the 4th largest seafood company in North America and the 15th largest seafood company in the world. The unified members of Sea Pact are:  Euclid Fish Company, Fortune Fish & Gourmet, Inland Seafood, Ipswich Shellfish Group, J.J. McDonnell, North Atlantic Inc., Santa Monica Seafood, Seacore Seafood, Seattle Fish Company, and Stavis Seafoods. Sea Pact receives sustainability council from non-profit organizations FishWise, Ocean Outcomes, and Sustainable Fisheries Partnership, and operational support from impact accelerator Multiplier. To learn more about Sea Pact visit www.seapact.org and follow on twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.
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Sea Pact - GDST Joint Statement

9/8/2020

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​Sea Pact and GDST:
Working Together for Seafood Traceability
 
September 8, 2020
 
Sea Pact and the Global Dialogue on Seafood Traceability (GDST) are today announcing a joint work program in support of efficient, verifiable, and interoperable seafood traceability.  The new work program represents an important step forward for the seafood industry towards ensuring that all seafood products bought and sold around the world are traceable to legal and responsible production practices.
 
This Sea Pact - GDST collaboration will focus on implementation of the recently released GDST 1.0 Standards and Guidelines for Interoperable Seafood Traceability, the first-ever global standards designed to make seafood traceability systems interoperable and verifiable worldwide.  Sea Pact is proud to announce that as of this date, all ten of its member companies have formally adopted the GDST standards and have declared their intention to implement them.  Sea Pact members are further committed to doing their part, including bringing forward their collective work on key data reporting in an effort to promote more effective supply chain data transfer and help drive efficient and reliable industry traceability.  Through their new work program, Sea Pact and GDST will coordinate their efforts to improve seafood traceability, increase the availability of information needed from the seafood supply base, and harmonize data reporting.  As part of this program, the GDST secretariat will work with Sea Pact member companies to provide technical support for phased, business-smart implementation of the GDST standards.  Sea Pact companies will use their collective voice to encourage industry-wide adoption of the GDST standards, and will emphasize the collection of priority “key data elements” as an early implementation step in concert with the rest of the seafood industry over the years ahead.
 
Sea Pact and GDST jointly recognize that effective seafood traceability is fundamental to the future of a legal, sustainable, and responsible seafood industry.  But achieving interoperable and verifiable traceability on a worldwide basis cannot be done without cooperation and standardization across global supply chains. As leading companies from the middle of the supply chain, Sea Pact members have wide industry experience with data reporting challenges through a complex diversity of customer requirements as well as a dependence on upstream producers to provide relevant and verifiable information.  Sea Pact recognizes the efficiency and reliability that would come with industry-wide adherence to the GDST standards, and GDST is committed to supporting Sea Pact in their industry leadership on the vitally important issue of seafood traceability.
 
 
Background
 
Sea Pact is a pre-competitive collaboration of leading North American seafood companies dedicated to driving stewardship and continuous improvement of social, economic, and environmental responsibility throughout the global seafood supply chain. Sea Pact’s vision is for a vibrant and resilient industry in which all seafood is produced, traded, and consumed responsibly.  Sea Pact’s member companies are:   *Euclid Fish Company, Fortune Fish and Gourmet, Inland Seafood, Ipswich Shellfish Group, J.J. McDonnell, North Atlantic, *Santa Monica Seafood, *Seacore Seafood, Seattle Fish Company, and *Stavis Seafoods.  Taken together, Sea Pact companies represent the fourth largest seafood company in North America, and the 15th largest in the world.  Four of Sea Pact’s ten member companies (with asterisks, above) also participated in the multi-year GDST drafting process.
 
The GDST is a major global seafood industry forum convened in 2017 to draft the first-ever, industry-led global standards for interoperable and verifiable seafood traceability.  After three years of consensus-based process among more than five-dozen seafood industry companies, the GDST 1.0 standards were formally released in March of this year. 
 
The GDST Standards are designed to allow thousands of companies across the global seafood industry share traceability information seamlessly and reliably.  The standards focus on an agreed set of “key data elements” that define the baseline information to be shared through traceability systems, along with detailed technical standards for how digital traceability information should be capture, formatted, and transmitted.  Mid-supply chain companies face especially complex challenges as they must collect information from many diverse suppliers and then meet multiple and often diverging information demands originating with consumers, NGOs, and regulations.  An important goal shared by Sea Pact and GDST is to help make traceability and data reporting more reliable and efficient.
 
For more information about Sea Pact and the GDST, please visit their websites:
 
https://www.seapact.org/members.html          https://traceability-dialogue.org/
 
 
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Seafood2030 Issue Brief, Vol. 2

9/8/2020

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How Collaborative Leadership is Turning Seafood into the Protein of the Future​

Sea Pact is a proud member of the Advisory Board of Seafood2030.
 
You can find the whole brief here:  Seafood2030 Issue Brief, Volume 2
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Seafood2030 Issue Brief, Volume 1

7/2/2020

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Have you seen the first Issue Brief from Seafood2030?  We’re looking forward to seeing what the future holds for FIP’s and other approaches to ensuring a responsible and accessible supply of seafood for the world.
 
We’re also glad to see Sea Pact Board Member Richard Stavis sharing his point of view in this informative brief.
 
“FIPs are really an emerging science, especially in sectors like squid and octopus, so insights learned from these projects are invaluable,” Stavis Seafoods Chief Sustainability Officer Richard Stavis said. “The SRs play a crucial role in that they enable monitoring of improvement projects and information sharing on improvements across a sector. They also serve as a signpost, alerting participants to FIP activities and highlighting opportunities for supply chain stakeholders to engage in improvements.”
- Richard Stavis, Chief Sustainability Officer, Stavis Seafoods
 
Sea Pact is a proud member of the Advisory Board of Seafood2030.
 
You can find the whole brief here:  Seafood2030 Issue Brief, Volume 1


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Sea Pact Helps provide PPE for Peruvian Fishermen

6/18/2020

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For the last 3 months, Sea Pact members have been getting together on Zoom to share stories, support each other, and collaborate on strategies to help keep our employees safe, healthy, and happy at work.
Despite early difficulties sourcing PPE for our teams, most of us now have access to a steady supply of quality facemasks and shields, high tech systems for taking and tracking temperatures, gloves, and plenty of sanitizer options for ourselves and our facilities. Every Sea Pact member has also found ways to offer support to local communities.

In Maryland, the team at J.J. McDonnell worked with customers to supply overnight teams at Sinai Hospital with meal deliveries of featuring crab cakes, and in the Windy City, Fortune Fish & Gourmet donated a truck, a worker and seafood to a local pantry. Inland Seafood’s team in New Orleans has been cooking together every Friday to supply essential workers with seafood meals, and on across the country, Euclid Fish Company, Ipswich Shellfish, North Atlantic Seafood, Santa Monica Seafood, Seattle Fish Company, Seacore Seafood, and Stavis Seafoods have supported their communities with initiatives such as donating fresh and frozen seafood to local food pantries and soup kitchens.

According to Sea Pact Chair Stacy Schultz “It’s been inspiring to see and share all the positive outreach that we’re all involved in. Seeing seafood companies coming together to help the industry is a trend that I’d like to see outlast this pandemic.”

But the reality is our seafood community is a global one. Many of the countries that we all source from have found it difficult to afford or access PPE. In some fishing communities, especially remote coastal villages, it feels almost impossible.

Which is why Sea Pact supported Future of Fish’s (FOF) recent fundraising campaign. According to FOF, this project is designed to supply Peruvian fishermen with “the necessary tools to safely open for business and provide fish, a vital source of nutrition, to the Peruvian population.”

FOF also reminds us

In Peru, small scale fisheries play a critical role in food security, supplying approximately 95% seafood consumed domestically. Sourcing of PPE and sanitation resources for businesses to open safely has been difficult in the developed world and even harder in countries like Peru where it is urgently needed.
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Walmart, Major Retailers Call for Governments to Ensure Sustainably-Produced Tuna during COVID-19

5/12/2020

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Click here for full story from perishablenews.com.
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