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Future of Fish
United States of America
Future of Fish accelerate the widespread adoption of business solutions that end overfishing by supporting collective impact of entrepreneurs and strategic partners. Their collaborations re-frame existing system wisdom, find new market opportunities, and unleash people’s belief in their own power to drive change.
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Loblaw Companies Limited
Canada
Loblaw Companies Limited is Canada s food and pharmacy leader the nation s largest retailer and the majority unitholder of Choice Properties Real Estate Investment Trust. Loblaw provides Canadians with grocery pharmacy health and beauty apparel general merchandise banking and wireless mobile products and services. With more than 2300 corporate franchised and Associate owned locations Loblaw its franchisees and Associate owners employ approximately 192000 full and part time employees making it one of Canada s largest private sector employers.
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Marine Stewardship Council
United Kingdom of Great Britai
The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) is an international non profit organisation set up to help transform the seafood market to a sustainable basis. The MSC runs the only certification and ecolabelling program for wild capture fisheries consistent with the ISEAL Code of Good Practice for Setting Social and Environmental Standards and the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation Guidelines for the Ecolabelling of Fish and Fishery Products from Marine Capture Fisheries. These guidelines are based upon the FAO Code of Conduct for Responsible Fishing and require that credible fishery certification and ecolabelling schemes.
| Agriculture, forestry & fishing |
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Mars Petcare
United States of America
Mars Petcare U.S. is one of the fastest growing pet food manufacturers in the United States. It manufactures quality store brand petcare products and branded products for dogs and cats marketed under the PEDIGREE CESAR and THE GOODLIFE RECIPE food for dogs and WHISKAS SHEBA TEMPTATIONS and THE GOODLIFE RECIPE food for cats. With the acquisition in 2006 of Doane Pet Care a leading manufacturer of dry pet food Mars Petcare US has moved its U.S. Pet Headquarters to Brentwood TN. and has 21 manufacturing facilities throughout the U.S.
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Masyarakat Dan Perikanan Indonesia (MDPI)
Indonesia
MDPI Foundation was founded in July 2013 as an independent foundation focused on achieving responsible and sustainable fisheries activities and attempting to provide ongoing care for the conservation of fisheries resources and ecosystems of Indonesia and the region. These attempts towards sustainability are specifically focused on small scale artisan fisheries. MDPI additionally focuses on supporting the development of the fishing communities and supply chains which are related to these fisheries through programs which aim to support economic improvements and social stability for the people.
| Agriculture, forestry & fishing |
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PureFish
United States of America
PureFish founded in 2002 began as an attempt to change the direction of the seafood industry. After years in the seafood business the founders came to the realization that the seafood products presently in the market were mostly being treated as a commodity. Massive large scale fisheries and farms were becoming evermore concerned about scales of economies higher volumes and higher production than the future of their fisheries and the environment. The art of raising or fishing for high quality fresh good fish was being lost for the most part and we chose to not be a part of that movement.
| Agriculture, forestry & fishing |
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SCS Global Services
United States of America
To achieve this vision they have established programs and services designed to Recognize the outstanding achievements of companies institutions and organizations who are meeting the highest levels of performance in environmental protection social responsibility product safety and quality andrnStimulate continuous improvement on the path toward sustainability. In this undertaking they employ a life cycle framework state of the art science proven analytical methods and performance metrics and professional expertise.
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Sea to Table
United States of America
Sea to Table partners with local fishermen from small-scale sustainable wild fisheries, finding better markets for their catch. Delivering overnight, direct from the source, reducing time and cost, allowing diners to know the ’who, how and where’ of the impossibly fresh fish they enjoy, creating a direct connection from fisherman to chef.
| Sustainable Oceans and Fisheries |
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Seafish
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Irela
Seafish is a Non Departmental Public Body (NDPB) set up by the Fisheries Act 1981 to improve efficiency and raise standards across the seafood industry. They are funded by a levy on the first sale of seafood products in the UK including imported seafood. As an organization they also take a great interest in the consumer the people who buy and eat seafood. Maintaining a well regulated seafood industry which delivers high quality safe sustainable seafood to UK consumers is one of their highest priorities.
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UMass Dining
United States of America
UMass Dining a campus food service provider serves 45000 meals per day and purchases $850000 of sustainable seafood per year. It is the largest dining services operation in the country. UMass Dining students consume nearly 21 pounds per year of seafood per person over the national average of 14 pounds.rnrnThis gives UMass Dining a unique responsibility to not only source foods that are socially and ecologically responsible but to educate their industry. All seafood served through their program is certified sustainably sourced using Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch guidelines. UMass has gone beyond this by incorporating locally sourced underutilized seafood into their programs to reduce their environmental impact save endangered fish populations and increase the resiliency of the New England fishing industry.
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