Six North American seafood suppliers have formed a new sustainable fisheries and aquaculture coalition – Sea Pact.
The six companies - Albion Fisheries, Fortune Fish & Gourmet, Ipswich Shellfish Group, Santa Monica Seafood, Seacore Seafood and Seattle Fish Co. - are striving 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 improve the fishing and fish farming systems from which they procure.
Logan Kock, Vice President of Strategic Purchasing & Responsible Sourcing at Santa Monica Seafood, said, “Santa Monica Seafood realised that to be able to support the improvement of fishing and aquaculture practices around the world we could not rely on the efforts of our company alone and that we would need support from other like-minded companies in the seafood industry to help create the scale necessary for meaningful improvements to be realized.”
Through pooling resources and knowledge to promote fisheries and aquaculture improvements, Sea Pact will be able to sponsor improvement projects that may otherwise be too large in scope to support as individual companies.
”We are excited about Sea Pact’s ability to generate impactful change by leveraging our combined influence and strength to produce more sustainable seafood options for the future. I am positive that together, our geographically diverse international membership, can create an industry driven difference to the fishing and aquaculture practices and systems that we source from,” states Guy Dean, CSO at Albion Fisheries Ltd.
