United for a Sustainable Future |
| SEA PACT FACTS |
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Sea Pact will improve the sustainability of global seafood by using the collective power of like-minded North American seafood companies to improve fishing and fish farming systems globally. Sea Pact was created by the six founding members: Albion Farms & Fisheries, Fortune Fish & Gourmet, Ipswich Shellfish Group, Santa Monica Seafood, Seacore Seafood and Seattle Fish Co. Sea Pact now consists of ten members.
Mission Statement
Sea Pact is a group 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.
We Agree as Sea Pact to Collectively:
1. Support a model of continuous improvement for fisheries and aquaculture farms.
2. Engage our peers and our supply chain in discussion and action around continuous improvement.
3. Publically state our goals for reaching more responsible seafood supply and monitor and measure our progress towards our goal.
4. Support each other’s efforts to educate our individual staff, customers and supply chain about our responsible seafood initiatives.
5. Utilize our collective purchasing power in a pre-competitive nature to engage in improvement efforts.
6. Financially contribute to continuous improvement of those fisheries and fish farming systems we procure from that meet our Project Selection Criteria.
7. Consider the impact on communities when making sourcing decisions.
8. Engage in and support policy and management reform that leads to positive environmental outcomes in fisheries and aquaculture management.
2. Engage our peers and our supply chain in discussion and action around continuous improvement.
3. Publically state our goals for reaching more responsible seafood supply and monitor and measure our progress towards our goal.
4. Support each other’s efforts to educate our individual staff, customers and supply chain about our responsible seafood initiatives.
5. Utilize our collective purchasing power in a pre-competitive nature to engage in improvement efforts.
6. Financially contribute to continuous improvement of those fisheries and fish farming systems we procure from that meet our Project Selection Criteria.
7. Consider the impact on communities when making sourcing decisions.
8. Engage in and support policy and management reform that leads to positive environmental outcomes in fisheries and aquaculture management.
Press
Message from the Managing Director
One of the things I find really interesting about Sea Pact, is that there are a fair number of collaborations between businesses that are all in a particular sector of the seafood industry- for example, fishery improvement platforms around crab or tuna, but there really aren’t many initiatives that bring together businesses that are involved primarily because of their commitment to sustainability, but that also cut across different markets. I believe it gives Sea Pact a different kind of frame and potential than the narrower bandwidth entities have.
The Sea Pact tag line is United For A Sustainable Future. This is a group of respected, profitable, leading businesses in the middle of the supply chain– distributors & importers, that are uniquely positioned to affect change, both below and above them. They are literally and figuratively at the center of the industry. Many are long-running family businesses- rooted in the past and invested in the future- and their focus is on positive improvement across the whole seafood industry.
Rob Johnson, Managing Director of Sea Pact
The Sea Pact tag line is United For A Sustainable Future. This is a group of respected, profitable, leading businesses in the middle of the supply chain– distributors & importers, that are uniquely positioned to affect change, both below and above them. They are literally and figuratively at the center of the industry. Many are long-running family businesses- rooted in the past and invested in the future- and their focus is on positive improvement across the whole seafood industry.
Rob Johnson, Managing Director of Sea Pact
