Sea Pact has elected Guy Dean as the new chairman for its advisory council.
Mr Dean, VP/CSO at Albion Fisheries Ltd takes the place of former chairman Logan Kock, vice president of Strategic Purchasing & Responsible Sourcing at Santa Monica Seafoods.
“I’m honoured to be elected to this role from my peers and people I respect in the industry,” says Mr Dean, “but more importantly, I’m grateful for the contribution and commitment Logan made in the formation of Sea Pact and am humbled to follow his leadership.”
Sea Pact is a coalition of seafood distributors who strive to advance environmentally sustainable fisheries and aquaculture practices and provide the building blocks of a long term and sustainable seafood industry by financially contributing to fisheries and aquaculture improvement.
The seafood industry can be a powerful force for improving the environmental sustainability of seafood and ocean ecosystems, particularly when efforts are coordinated to best leverage funds for positive change. Through pooling resources and knowledge to promote fisheries and aquaculture improvements, Sea Pact continues to provide funding for projects in fisheries and aquaculture improvement, and is opening its fourth Request for Proposals in July.
“We are really thrilled with our upcoming fourth RFP as we will be concentrating our effort on current issues affecting our industry now and in the immediate future. We look forward to receiving proposals focused on supporting innovation in aquaculture, social responsibility in the seafood supply chain, and working towards new techniques and technologies for by catch reduction in wild capture fisheries”, says Mr Dean.
