The Fisheye

Happy World Oceans Day!

As you may have heard, today is a big day for ocean lovers, conservationists, and seafood people everywhere. Check out highlights from today including some tips, facts, and recipes for preparing sustainable seafood yourself.

Tweets from the sea. #sexfriendlyseafood

Marah Hardt, our Director of Research and author of Sex in the Sea hosted a twitter chat alongside Fish Revolution’s Crystal Sanders and Future of Fish. We heard from a whole array of guests including Conservation International Hawai’i, Steve Vilnit, Fine & Rare, and Sea to Table.

June 1, 2016 -- Future of Fish, a nonprofit organization that works within the seafood supply chain to promote traceability and transparency, today announced that Charles Steinback, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Point 97, will be joining Future of Fish as Director of their Traceability Technology Pod.

At Future of Fish, we’re focused on the ocean every day. That’s why we’re especially excited for World Oceans Day on June 8—it’s a chance to celebrate the sea that nourishes us, and to talk about the environmental and industrial challenges that our oceans face. We’ll be using World Oceans Day (actually, World Oceans Week) as an opportunity to highlight some of our ongoing initiatives and host a few sea-worthy activities. Take a look at what we’ve got in store:

How adding data directly to packaging builds trust for an emerging storied seafood brand. After our Seattle co-design workshop, we caught in with participant Norah Eddy, co-founder of Salty Girl Seafood Company. Norah brought us up to speed on what's new for Salty Girl Seafood, and we chatted about the importance of traceability and storied fish.

When we left off, our teams had just finished presenting ideas, building prototypes, and acting out a version of the world in which their ideas come to life. But it still felt hypothetical. The re-convening—as designed by our for-profit partner Flip Labs is when we nail down real, actionable next steps. It’s here that we begin to strategize about funding, and start the critical transition from “teams” to “Pods”. Let’s dive in.