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"Don't you dare fall off this boat." That was the constant thought that Future of Fish team members had in the darkness. They were in the middle of the Flores Sea at 11 pm with fishers from Labuhan Lombok, Indonesia, in a tiny wooden fishing vessel. The team was getting to know the yellowfin tuna fishing community there as part of the mFish initiative, a public-private partnership launched in 2014 by the United States Department of State. The goals: make fishing more sustainable and improve fisher…

Starting off Sustainable Seafood Week NYC in energetic style, Industry Lab convened leading seafood scientists, advocates, food service professionals, distributors and chefs to explore hot topics. Future of Fish led the invitation-only gathering hosted by Riverpark on June 23. The day featured expert panels and enaging activities. Future of Fish and Flip Labs pod manager Keith Flett made opening remarks before a panel about traceability that was moderated by Future of Fish executive director and Flip Labs C.E.O. Cheryl Dahle. Picking up where industry discussions last…

We are excited to announce that Future of Fish, our affiliate Flip Labs, and Village Fishmonger are producing a culinary-fueled celebration of responsibly sourced seafood! Sustainable Seafood Week National will bring chefs, fishermen, industry professionals, and fish fans together in cities across America. In 2013, Village Fishmonger co-founders Samantha Lee, Dennis O’Connor and Sean Dixon noticed a disconnect between New York City residents and nearby fisheries. In response, they collaborated with Future of Fish to create Sustainable Seafood Week NYC. Last year the week kicked off…

Oceana recently hosted an engaging Twitter chat that focused on seafood fraud. Attendees included Steve Vilnit, Chef Bun Lai, iPura, ThisFish, SeafoodSource's Sean Murphy, National Aquarium director of conservation Laura Bankey, and Oceana's Kimberly Warner. The chat coincided with a new report from Oceana that takes a closer look at mislabeling of iconic Chesapeake blue crab (PDF). Our friends at Oceana collected 90 crab cakes from 86 restaurants in Maryland and Washington, D.C., during the 2014 Maryland crab season. After they tested them, they made several discoveries.…

We're like proud parents on the day our kid made honor roll. Flip Labs, the company spun out of Future of Fish in September to bring our style of systems thinking to the non-fish world, has been named a B Corporation. Flip Labs was founded by CEO Cheryl Dahle explicitly to take the approach pioneered in four years of work in fisheries system reinvention and apply it to other systems. Flip Labs will use the same methods of problem re-framing, collaboration with system players, and…

Sure, Paris has the glitz and glam of Fashion Week, but Boston is hot on its heels with the annual Seafood Expo. For the seafood world, this is a time to shine. North America’s largest seafood exposition starts March 15 and runs through Tuesday, March 17. Members of the Future of Fish team will be attending the Seafood Expo this year. Memories from last year still fresh in our minds, here are the top 10 reasons why we’re looking forward to this big social seafood gathering:…

By Crystal Sanders Most Hawaiian vacations involve cocktails and beach time, but being a serious fish nerd I spent three early mornings at the Honolulu Fish Auction. I was there to meet a shipper who sent me tuna that a fishermen friend of mine had caught in Hawaii. I also wanted to see what happens when the buyer sets the price for individual fish based on quality instead of wholesalers setting the price that fishermen receive. The seafood supply chain has been notoriously opaque,…

SeafoodSource hosted an engaging chat on Twitter focused on seafood traceability and origin labeling today. Editors James Wright, Michelle McNickle, and Sean Murphy led the #SfSchat. Attendees included FishWise, ThisFish, Dustin Cranor from Oceana, Inga from Marel Fish, Steve Vilnit, and Dana Biscotti Myskowski from the forthcoming documentary film Fish & Men. Future of Fish's Marah Hardt and Alyssa Danigelis participated as well. In case you missed the lively and informative chat, the Storified version is below.

Come explore innovative ecosystem service management opportunities and tools with us at the world’s premier conference on seafood sustainability. On February 11, Future of Fish and F.L.O.W. Collaborative will host an interactive workshop at the SeaWeb Seafood Summit in New Orleans. Participants can explore ecosystem service valuation as a mechanism for financing sustainable fisheries. Ecosystem service is a nascent field that enables businesses to incorporate natural capital into their bottom line. By accounting for what nature does, ecosystems services take corporate social responsibility to the next level. The…

This article was originally posted as an op-ed on Triple Pundit as part of their ongoing Sustainable Seafood channel. In the last 10 years we’ve seen 25 of the top U.S. retailers make commitments to purchasing sustainable seafood. We’ve seen a lot less traction and follow-through on those commitments. The fact remains that there is not enough responsible fish—whether you define that as Marine Stewardship Council certified, Monterey Bay Aquarium green-listed, or some other eco-label—to satisfy current demand for fish. As a result, many companies are defaulting on their promised timelines, or…

This is a preview. See the full infographic here. The Seafood Expo North America (SENA) is probably the only event in the country where you can walk down one aisle of booths and shake hands with a refrigerated boxcar expert, an oyster shucking champion, a sculpture artist, a high-efficiency pump engineer, and a technician specializing in shrink wrap. The largest seafood trade show on the continent, SENA offers the unique opportunity to meet and mingle with people from every possible facet of the seafood industry: fishers, distributors,…

This article was originally posted as an op-ed on Triple Pundit as part of their ongoing Sustainable Seafood channel. Exposés of deception and abuse in food supply chains have become disturbingly routine. Whether we’re hearing about pink slime or horsemeat passed off as beef, the news is consistently unsettling: We can’t trust what we’re eating. Seafood is no exception to this pattern. More than one-third of our seafood is mislabeled in North America. And upwards of 24 million tons of seafood is caught and sold illegally every year. A just-published report from University of British Columbia…