The Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch program has received $7 million -not $407 million -from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation since the program's inception in 1999.
That money supports our efforts to help consumers and businesses choose wild-caught and farmed seafood from sources that preserve the health of the ocean -and the economic health and vitality of communities whose people suffer when ocean ecosystems collapse.
More than 700 industry leaders gathered in Vancouver last week for the annual Seafood Summit, in support of just that vision. They represent major seafood buyers and producers, as well as non-profit organizations like the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
Part of their shared vision is a commitment to work together so that unsustainable fishing methods and aquaculture practices improve over time, in ways that are broadly embraced and independently verified.
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