American seafood company Sea Delight, of Miami, Fla., has partnered with sustainable seafood consultant FishWise to create a public sustainable seafood policy.
Sea Delight, in a statement, said the policy makes formal the practices the company has been engaged in for years.
“It’s a natural progression for Sea Delight to now have a public sustainability policy to continue to build and expand our sustainable seafood efforts and attain measurable goals,” said Adriana Sanchez-Lindsay, Sea Delight’s sustainability coordinator.
The policy will cover sourcing, product assessment, fishery improvement projects, industry reform, education and partnerships.
“Sea Delight is one of the first seafood distributors in the U.S. to publicly set out clear and measurable sustainability goals,” said FishWise Executive Director Tobias Aguirre. “This includes increasing sourcing from fishery improvement projects — multi-stakeholder efforts to address environmental challenges in a fishery. It also directs Sea Delight’s suppliers to actively participate in these projects and implement procedures.”
