{"id":11970,"date":"2026-09-09T13:42:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T12:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/?p=11970"},"modified":"2026-09-09T13:42:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T12:42:37","slug":"local-ocean-has-a-story-to-share-with-the-100-fish-for-profit-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/news\/ifc-100-fish\/local-ocean-has-a-story-to-share-with-the-100-fish-for-profit-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Ocean has a story to share with the 100% Fish For Profit world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">A remarkable example of the 100% Fish For Profit vision made real is contained in the story of Local Ocean, a restaurant in Newport, Oregon, which has fully embraced the full utilisation fisheries mission.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Local Ocean\u2019s journey will be explored on the opening day of the 100% Fish For Profit Conference later this month, when founder Laura Anderson and Business Innovation Specialist Darlene Khalafi share details in the <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Blueprints For Success<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> session.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">First opened in 2005 by Anderson and fisherman Al Pazar, Local Ocean was \u2018a fish market with a little restaurant attached\u2019 before developing and expanding to become one of the founding businesses of the Oregon Ocean Cluster in 2024, since when it has been an outsized contributor to\u202fthe movement dedicated to enhancing the blue economy in the Oregon region.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Khalafi is a marine ecologist and sustainability professional whose work for Local Ocean was last year selected for a competitive program launching novel seafood products and commercialization strategies for underutilized fisheries, securing over $100k in support for Local Ocean\u2019s 100% Fish work to date.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The inspiring Local Ocean duo will be joined in the session exploring transferable full utilisation strategies by contributors from the Great Lakes Cluster, the Royal Greenland fishing company, and the Netherlands\u2019 world-leading Wageningen University &amp; Research.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">To appreciate the full value \u2013 in person \u2013 at the 100% Fish For Profit Conference, book your place now and email us at info@icefishconference.com\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Founder Laura Anderson and sustainability expert Darlene Khalafi are a dynamic sustainability duo <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11971,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[186,123],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-11970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ifc-100-fish","category-ifc-100-fish-speakers-current"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11972,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11970\/revisions\/11972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11970"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=11970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}