Reframing the Sustainable Seafood Narrative by Shifting to a "Whole Chain" Perspective
The State of FIPs in 2020–A Briefing for Seafood Businesses
Securing a sustainable future – technological advances in seafood digitalization
Peterson has 20-plus years of experience in consumer-goods marketing with Gorton’s of Gloucester, where she played a big role in the launch of several new seafood products and lines and Nicholson knows a thing or two about seafood innovation — since 2009, his company has captured four top prizes at two new product competitions — the International Boston Seafood Show’s Seafood Excellence Awards and the European Seafood Exposition’s Seafood Prix d’Elite.
Information management in seafood has become more multimedial to accommodate rapid advancements in the technology sector. Spreadsheets and PDFs are no longer enough - the appeal of complementary media, like digital images, is on the rise and it is influencing industry purchasing decisions like never before. How can seafood sellers best keep tabs on image data and leverage it to enhance operations and sales? Join SeafoodSource and José Castro Fuentes, Director of CYRSE, to explore the power of sharing and archiving images in the seafood realm.
Recovery is well under way from ISA in Chile, and we seem to be turning the corner on EMS in Southeast Asia, but what about the next big biological catastrophe that may be waiting in the wings? Even though we may not yet know what that may be, there’s a surprising amount you can do now to prepare for the next epidemic, and the advice follows guidance on sustainable aquaculture that has been around for some time. In this webinar, we’ll discuss what you can do to plan ahead.
With a growing e-commerce world, some seafood dealers have found lucrative opportunities through popular online retail portals. In this webinar, we'll hear how one seafood dealer managed to extend its reach using a major logistics company to carry its products to a whole new set of customers.
How Do We Increase Consumption in the U.S.– Is It Time to Revisit the Idea of a National Seafood Council?
The Strategy Behind Sustainable Seafood Philanthropy – A Briefing for Industry from the Packard and Walton Family Foundations
Maine Lobster: A Variety of Products for Any Culinary Occasion
Seafood processors are a study in efficiency when producing fillets from raw fish, but "extra" parts such as skin, organs and other body parts are discarded as waste far too quickly. In this webinar, we'll explore what uses exist for these parts, and the opportunities for revenue they offer.
Moderator: Maddie Kearns, SeafoodSource.com
Panelists:
John Connelly, National Fisheries Institute NFI
Sam Galetti, Southwind Foods/Great American Seafood Import Co
Plant-based seafood analog products are proliferating in North America and globally. Some traditional seafood suppliers have looked upon the emerging product segment as an opportunity for new growth, while others in the industry remain skeptical of its classification and positioning in the marketplace. This panel session explores these various viewpoints, from seafood suppliers stepping into plant-based analog product development themselves to those partnering with alternative protein food-makers. How might seafood and plant-based alternatives coexist? Where do the categories connect, and where do they diverge? What kind of labeling is needed for this analog?
Moderator: Sylvia Wulf, AquaBounty
Speakers:
- Chef Charlie Baggs, Charlie Baggs Culinary Innovations
- Joe Lasprogata, Samuels Seafood
- Elana Natker, Sage Leaf Communications, LLC
- Yonathan Zohar, University of Maryland
The recent report from the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) stated that global warming is likely to rise around 1.5 degrees-C within the next 20 years. Aquaculture in marine and freshwater environments is extremely vulnerable to the growing impacts of extreme weather and climate change that will accompany this temperature rise. Given the short runway to find viable solutions to mitigate the worst impacts, and to ensure food security for the world’s growing population, we will need to deploy the rapidly developing tools from the biotechnology sector. Cultivating what are essentially wild organisms in farm settings has many challenges when it comes to growth and feed efficiency, not to mention disease resistance and other desirable production traits. Farming seafood will become even more challenging in the rapidly changing and increasingly unpredictable environment. Innovation and the use of technology – including genetic engineering and gene editing – are viable solutions to provide a safe, secure and sustainable source of fresh seafood. It is not difficult to imagine the development of more temperature-tolerant, disease-resistant, and faster-growing aquatic species for aquaculture use coming down the road. This session will explore the importance of innovation in the seafood industry and the potential of using technology, and specifically biotechnology, to mitigate the adverse impacts of climate change on aquaculture.
Moderator: Eric Enno Tamm, ThisFish
Speakers: Mark Hager, New England Marine Monitoring
Artificial intelligence (AI) is already part of our daily lives. Google Maps, Amazon recommendations, Facebook ads—all these technologies are powered by some kind of AI. So, how is AI going to disrupt the seafood industry? Because of the natural variability of fish, it is often difficult for fish farmers, fishermen and seafood processors to predict quality and production outcomes, such as yields, since there are so many variables. As it turns out, that's a perfect problem for artificial intelligence which is set to disrupt the seafood industry. In this session, you'll learn about what is AI and how it is used, what are its current applications in the seafood industry and what is cutting-edge research currently being conducted in the industry.
Speakers: Tom Pickerell, Executive Director - Global Tuna Alliance, Martin Exel, Managing Director - SeaBOS, Sam Grimley, Executive Director - Sea Pact, Rob Johnson, Founder/President - Blue Bridge Consulting, Helen Packer, Lead, Seafood Stewardship Index - World Benchmarking Alliance, Andrea Weber, Vice President Corporate Responsibility - METRO AG, Herman Wisse, Executive Director - Global Sustainable Seafood Initiative (GSSI)
"Initiative overload" is commonly heard in seafood circles. There remains a plethora of issues that companies face in ensuring the seafood they sell meets environmental and social responsibility standards, and many programs and tools exist to assist. It feels that may be close to saturation point; feedback from companies supports this and we are at risk of overwhelming those companies looking to make changes. An alternative approach may be to increase collaboration via a 'meta-collaboration' whereby economies of scale can be employed, redundancies eliminated and companies can engage in a more holistic approach. This session explores how such a meta-collaboration could be developed, demonstrates worked examples where a meta-collaboration has been used, seeks feedback from interested companies and offers a new approach to improving seafood sustainability.
Illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing has been recently brought to a new level of public awareness, with retailers and seafood buyers realizing their purchasing power to influence policies that ensure the fish they trade in is legally sourced.
Leading Seafood Traceability Platforms Just Got Interoperable: Find Out How and Why!
Lent may not be until the first quarter of 2016, but the smart seafood industry exec knows the time for buying and planning for one of
Social issues in the tuna supply chain are at the forefront of discussions about sustainability in the seafood industry, and increasing attention is being paid to working conditions both in tuna processing and within the purse-seiner fleet.
The seafood industry in Asia is undergoing a sea change as the continent gains in international prominence. Traditional seafood powers China and Thailand are losing grip on their dominant positions in the marketplace and upstarts including India, Vietnam and Indonesia are gaining market share. Meanwhile, a host of challenges have arisen that threaten to derail the continent’s rise. Join SeafoodSource contributing editors Mark Godfrey, who reports from Beijing, China and Chris Loew, who reports from Osaka, Japan, as they analyze the latest news and trends from Asia and offer predictions for the future of the continent’s seafood industry.
Companies that want to enter and grow in the Asian seafood market attend and exhibit at Seafood Expo Asia, the premium seafood marketplace for Asia. The 7th edition will be taking place 6-8 September 2016 in Wanchai, Hong Kong.
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James Griffin, an associate professor of culinary studies at Johnson & Wales University, will share findings from a recent national study on seafood sustainability in commercial foodservice. The study investigated where chefs get their information on sustainability, as well as their opinions of countries of origin and labeling. Griffin’s research suggests that chefs rely more than ever on vendors or suppliers to assure the seafood they purchase is sustainable, in part due to the complexity of seafood sustainability across multiple species and the lack of a consistent definition for what sustainability means when it comes to seafood.
The seafood industry is a price sensitive, seasonal and specialized market. And it’s becoming even more complex. With business consolidation and industry globalization, having a “cost management” strategy is not enough. Today’s leading seafood companies need a financial management strategy with advanced visibility, accountability, KPIs and real-time reporting throughout the supply chain.
