We exist to promote the exchange of ideas and information and foster interaction to enhance industry education and policy.
Human Rights and Environmental Justice create a healthy and resilient future for people, the environment, and the industry.
Emerging technologies, global communications, and open standards will unite the industry through collaboration.
The growth of this project is remarkable and we are engaged globally. We started in Peru and grew from what we needed to learn. We are now fully executing in Haiti as well the Philippines with immediate plans to go into Indonesia. We get calls from around the world; the need is global.
Your product, made from recycled fishing nets is unique and pioneering, is anyone else doing this?
What you will find is that adidas is working with an NGO called Parley on the west coast of the states and have done a demo with some used fishing nets. What they did was they collected some nets and they've done a demo run and with adidas they've produced some sneakers. Those sneakers have been sold at $7,000 a pair. It's not an economic model. It's a PR demo. I'm not doing demos. I'm trying to make a genuine business. It's embedded in the local community that takes waste from local sources and employs local people and then exports a finished product.
Association of International Seafood Professionals is playing a role at Aquaculture America through the organization of two sessions. One to do with Research and the other with Seafood Promotion and both take place in the afternoon of Wednesday 22 February.
How and where did you first start working in seafood industries?
After completing my MBA I networked with a fellow Babson graduate who had taken a position the previous year at Gorton’s in Gloucester MA. He said great things about the company and it seemed a great place to start my marketing career. Honestly my focus was not so much on seafood back then, but that quickly changed!
As a Biomedical Research Scientist, how and when did you first become interested in looking at seafood?
I was working with the Human Nutrition Research Center which studies selenium physiology and became aware of how important selenium is in brain studies. Along the way I found out that Mercury had a very high binding affinity for selenium. And pretty much the way mercury toxicity causes its problems and the things we'd expect to see if they were interfering with selenium, all lined up pretty much immediately. This was back in about 2001.
Will you please share with us how LoveTheWild came to be?
Jacqueline and I started the company in 2014; with a mission to change the way Americans eat fish, as well as change the way they think about farmed fish. Research in the US shows that we don’t eat enough fish here (USDA recommends two 4-6 oz. portions per week, per person), and we believe that’s because people are intimidated by fish, including how to cook it, knowing what’s sustainable, knowing what’s healthy, and more. We wanted to take the guesswork out of fish, what to flavor it with, and what species to trust from a sustainability and health perspective. Fish is the most resource-efficient animal protein on the planet, and there are many reasons to eat more of it—global food security, human health, environmental sustainability, etc.—we wanted to provide a product that was a no-brainer way to get people to do just that.
A Professional Association representing all individuals from all sectors of the global seafood industry community enabling interaction, understanding, and collaboration; disseminating knowledge about fish, seafood, and associated products; lifting values by promoting advancement in seafood research, development, extension, education and standards that will lead to a professional accredited industry.
AISP is a Professional Association representing all individuals from all sectors of the global seafood industry.
