RANCHO DOMINGUEZ, CA – Sea Pact, a coalition of seafood industry leaders, announces their first Request for Grant Proposals. Sea Pact is working to advance sustainable fisheries and aquaculture practices through a grant process that awards funds to projects that are most aligned with their mission. Through this RFP, Sea Pact aims to select a project in line with their goals; Fishery and Aquaculture Improvement Projects, habitat restoration efforts, scientific research and other projects are encouraged to apply. Responses are due by October 4th, 2013. Sea Pact will announce the grant recipients in November.
To apply for funding, organizations are asked to fill out the Grant Proposal form on the Sea Pact website: http://www.seapact.org/projects.html.
“We hope to create meaningful change in the industry,” says Logan Kock, Vice President of Strategic Purchasing & Responsible Sourcing at Santa Monica Seafood and Chairman of the Sea Pact Board of Directors. “This RFP is an opportunity for our organization to learn about projects currently impacting our industry, and to pick the one that we feel will have the most influence.”
Albion Fisheries, Fortune Fish & Gourmet, Ipswich Shellfish Group, Santa Monica Seafood, Seacore Seafood and Seattle Fish Co. are the founding members of Sea Pact and share an active progressive approach to their sustainability commitments. Sea Pact works with New Venture Fund and receives sustainability counsel from non-profit organizations FishWise and Sustainable Fisheries Partnership (SFP). To learn more about Sea Pact visit their website http://www.seapact.org/.
CONTACTS:
Logan Kock, Santa Monica Seafood, (310) 886-7935
Guy Dean, Albion Fisheries, (604) 295-2025
Derek Figueroa, Seattle Fish Co., (303) 329-9595 x 124
Sal Battaglia, Seacore Seafood, (905) 856-6222 x 253
Mark Palicki, Fortune Fish & Gourmet, (630) 860-7324
Christian Callahan, Ipswich Shellfish Group, (978) 356-4371 x 3097
Source: Sea Pact