2015 #GivingTuesday campaign |
This blog comes from Cynthia Bush, NAMA’s Finance and Administrative Coordinator and Program Associate. Cynthia organizes our Seafood Throwdowns.
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Making a difference, One Seafood Throwdown at a time!
Top Five Reasons to Give
#1 You help us talk through the tough issues.
Threats to the health of our ocean and community based fishermen are on the rise. Seafood Throwdowns allow us a fun atmosphere to teach audiences tangible ways to do something about it and bring support to those who need it most.
Pic: Local Rhode Island fisherman Katie Eagan shares about how, where, and when she caught her fish. Plus the values she brings to her business.
#2 You help us go deeper around sustainable seafood.
Traditional ways of thinking about sustainable seafood haven’t gotten us where we need to go. So we’re going deeper to share the ecological, social, food system and economic importance of locally caught seafood and community based small and medium scale fishermen.
Pic: Student food activists share why they care about locally caught seafood in the first ever youth-led Seafood Throwdown at the New Hampshire Fishtival.
#3 You help us take action.
It ain’t just about selling seafood. It’s about transforming fisheries and ocean policies and educating the public, whether that means by signing petitions, creating video testimony, or growing our Fish Locally Collaborative network.
Pic: The late Mayor Thomas Menino of Boston surrounded by local chefs who participated in a Seafood Throwdown, publicly announces local seafood’s return to the city’s farmers’ markets after a 70+ year prohibition!
Pic: The young farm apprentices from the Conetoe Familly Life Center strengthen connections between the Hatteras Island fishing community and the mainland African American farming communities at the Day at the Docks Seafood Throwdown in North Carolina.
Pic: Local fisherman Phil Michaud shows his local catch to the crowd. Dogfish! Most most folks had never seen or heard of a dogfish. And our chefs were pretty much in the same boat. After the tastes, smells, and stories, folks were excited to try local dogfish.
Making a difference, One Seafood Throwdown at a time!