3 Fish sources all its blue swimming crabmeat exclusively from Crab Council members, a purchasing decision reflective of the company\u2019s sustainability focus. In partnering with Crab Council companies, 3 Fish supports the council\u2019s sustainability mission by contributing to the crab resource management in Southeast Asia.<\/p>\n
\u201cCrafting products with responsibly harvested material elevates our value-added brand,\u201d said 3 Fish\u2019s VP of Internal Services, Eric Kyryliuk. \u201cBy joining the Crab Council, 3 Fish rededicates itself to robust, healthy fisheries.\u201d<\/p>\n
Industry-led sustainability <\/strong><\/p>\n As the 31st member of the Crab Council, 3 Fish joins an increasing council cohort of non-importing, processor members. The Crab Council is an industry-led sustainability effort whose membership includes US and international crab companies. The Crab Council receives its funding for fishery improvement projects in Southeast Asia from member assessments on every pound of blue swimming crab imported as well as through contributions from other companies in the Blue Swimming Crab value chain, like 3 Fish.<\/p>\n Crab Council Chairman Brice Phillips heralds the participation of non-importing companies as an indicator of the sustainability group\u2019s growth and influence.<\/p>\n \u201cThe participation in the Crab Council has reached near-ubiquity among importers,\u201d said Phillips. \u201cSeeing the council\u2019s significance expand to a more diverse set of companies focusing on end-user products speaks to the strength of the council\u2019s efforts.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The US National Fisheries Institute\u2019s Crab Council has announced North Carolina processor 3 Fish as its latest member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2960,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-2959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2961,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959\/revisions\/2961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2959"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=2959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}