Future of Fish

Who We Are | Swimming Upstream

  • Thomas Kraft : Seattle, Washington

    Founder of Norpac Fisheries Export, a successful processing and distribution business dedicated to accountability, responsibility, traceability & sustainability

  • Richard Boot : Fort Collins, Colorado

    Founder and president of FishChoice Inc., an online matching service for buyers and suppliers of sustainable fish

  • Jared Auerbach : Boston, MA

    Owner and CEO of Red’s Best, an innovative technology and logistics platform that builds efficiency and traceability in order to support small fishing fleets and ensure maximum freshness.

  • Robert Terry : Palo Alto, CA / Newport, OR

    Founder and CTO of Smart Catch LLC, a startup that‘s developing cost-effective, innovative trawl-net fishing gear that will help fishermen increase efficiency and reduce by-catch.

  • Ed Backus : Portland, Oregon

    Vice president of community ecosystem services at Ecotrust, and founder of the $6 million North Pacific Fisheries Trust

  • Dune Lankard : Cordova, Alaska

    Native Athabaskan Eyak fisherman from the Alaskan Copper River Delta and founder of Copper River Wild Salmon

  • Barton Seaver : Washington, DC

    Chef, speaker, National Geographic Fellow, and author of the sustainable seafood cookbook For Cod and Country

  • Miguel Jorge : Washington, DC

    Director of the National Geographic Society’s Ocean Initiative working with an array of partners to restore ocean health and productivity

  • Sean & Michael Dimin : Brooklyn, NY

    Founders of Sea to Table, a business that overnights fresh fish caught by small-scale sustainable fishermen around the world to top restaurants

  • Steve Vilnit : Annapolis, MD

    Director of Fisheries Marketing at the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, a state-run program that helps watermen increase the value of their harvest through grassroots marketing efforts.

  • Village Fishmonger : New York, NY

    Founders of Village Fishmonger are in the process of launching a seafood retail business selling locally sourced sustainable seafood a la carte or by seasonal subscription.

  • Jerry Knecht : Bali, Indonesia

    Founder and president of North Atlantic, Inc., a primary processor, importer, and distributor of fresh and frozen seafood, and sustainability pioneer

  • Shannon McDiarmid : San Francisco, CA

    President and Director of Safety & Sustainability at Royal Hawaiian Seafood, a premiere Bay Area seafood distributor focused on high-caliber and responsibly produced fresh and live seafood.

  • Kristofor Lofgren : Portland, Oregon

    Ecopreneur and founder of the nation’s first MSC certified sustainable sushi restaurant, Bamboo Sushi

Swimming Upstream

What the Future of Fish Can Teach Us about Designing Systems

Posted by Cheryl Dahle on February 20, 2013 - Leave a Comment

Published on February 20th by Core77.com. Read the original article here.

When I began my journey to understand global overfishing, I knew that it was a sprawling and complex tangle of intertwining problems touching the spheres of policy, commerce, environment and livelihood. Now, almost five...

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Vote for Future of Fish for the Katerva People’s Choice Award by January 29th!

Posted by Colleen Howell on January 25, 2013 - Leave a Comment

We recently posted the exciting announcement that Future of Fish has been selected as one of five Finalists in the Food Security category for the 2012 Katerva Award, an award that highlights groundbreaking innovation across the globe and that has been described by Reuters as the "Nobel Prize for...

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Press Release: Future of Fish selected as Finalist for the 2012 Katerva Award

Posted by Cheryl Dahle on December 12, 2012 - Leave a Comment

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

12 December 2012

Future of Fish selected as Finalist for the 2012 Katerva Award

Katerva names Future of Fish one of the 51 "new ideas that will change our world"

Future of Fish has been selected as one of five Finalists in the Food Security category for the 2012...

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Press Release: Future of Fish Cohort Member Gets Loan to Expand Sales to College Campuses Nationwide

Posted by Cheryl Dahle on October 04, 2012 - Leave a Comment

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

October 3, 2012

Environmentally and Socially Conscious Seafood Distributor Lands Loan to Expand Sales of Sustainable Fish to College Campuses Nationwide

(New York, NY) Future of Fish, a business incubator for ocean-stewarding entrepreneurs, announces the placement of...

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