Seafood Summit 2010:Challenging Assumptions in a Changing World

This year’s Seafood Summit brings together global representatives from the seafood industry and conservation community for in-depth discussions, presentations and networking with the goal of making the seafood marketplace environmentally, socially and economically sustainable. For more information, visit their web page.

Seafood Summit 2010:Challenging Assumptions in a Changing World

This year’s Seafood Summit brings together global representatives from the seafood industry and conservation community for in-depth discussions, presentations and networking with the goal of making the seafood marketplace environmentally, socially and economically sustainable. For more information, visit their web page.

On Monday, February 1st, join NAMA at the workshop, “The Role of Direct Marketing in Sustaining Fishing Communities.”

Commercial fishermen, their families, and coastal communities from around the globe are finding it harder to continue their traditional livelihoods and pass their knowledge on to future generations. The panel will explore attempts by various fishing communities to preserve their way of life through different direct marketing approaches, such as co-ops and “community supported fisheries”. Direct marketing is a way for smaller-scale fishing communities to sustain their livelihoods, traditions, and communities. Direct marketing re-links consumers with their local fishermen and instils in the consumer a greater awareness of their connection to the earth’s natural resources.

Moderated by Sara Randall (Institute for Fishery Resources) with panellists Jeremy Brown (Commercial Fishermen of America), Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance and Barbara Rodenburg (Artisanal fisherman).