The Responsible Seafood Conference
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Innovative processes and tools — on the water and online — are speeding aquaculture’s evolution. Session 1 will explore how new technologies are making aquaculture more efficient, sustainable, profitable and humane. What does it take to bring new ideas and products to market? Join Responsible Seafood Advocate Editor James Wright in a discussion with investors and entrepreneurs about the many opportunities and challenges that aquaculture presents.

Guest hosts Carsten Krome of Hatch Blue and Amy Novogratz of Aqua-Spark join Responsible Seafood Advocate Editor James Wright for a 10-minute high-level discussion about transformational change in aquaculture, led by innovation and investment.

Tony Fadell is an active investor and entrepreneur whose 30-year-plus career includes a decade with Apple Computers, during which he headed the team that created the first 18 generations of the iPod and the first three generations of the iPhone. His current venture, Future Shape, is a global investment and advisory firm coaching engineers, scientists and startups working on foundational deep technology. Fadell, who also founded Nest, the company that pioneered the “Internet of Things,” will talk with Responsible Seafood Advocate Editor James Wright about bringing technology from the lab to our lives. Over the course of his career, Fadell has authored more than 300 patents.

Following Tony Fadell’s keynote address, guest hosts Carsten Krome and Amy Novogratz rejoin James Wright for a 15-minute high-level discussion about transformational change in aquaculture.

Some of the world’s leading minds in aquaculture technology pitch their innovations.

Some of the world’s leading minds in aquaculture technology pitch their innovations.

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It’s well documented that COVID-19 has reshaped the seafood sourcing, marketing and consumption landscapes. At-home seafood consumption is flourishing, dining out is poised to bounce back as COVID-19 restrictions are lifted, and the supply-chain disruptions that muddled last year aren’t as frequent this year. But will these trends last? And is the relationship between buyers and suppliers shifting from a strictly transactional arrangement to a truly collaborative partnership? Find out.

Has seafood consumption changed permanently due to the pandemic? In his presentation, Matt Craze of Spheric Research reveals the results of an exclusive GSA-commissioned survey of around 30 retail and foodservice seafood buyers from around the globe. Featured in the presentation are interviews with key members of the seafood-sourcing community, including Megan Morikawa, global director of sustainability at Iberostar Group; Susan Tong, a seafood buyer at Ikea China; Kikuo Shomen, a seafood buyer at Metro Cash & Carry Japan; Guy Pizzuti, seafood category manager at Publix; and Red Lobster CEO Kim Axel Lopdrup. What he found may surprise you.

Best Aquaculture Practices’ Molly Jacques interviews key members of the retail and foodservice communities about today’s ever-changing seafood landscape.

Sponsored content and trivia.

Join Molly Jacques, Matt Craze and the other speakers for a live panel discussion with audience Q&A and polling.

At-home seafood consumption experienced tremendous growth during the pandemic. Marketing strategies have been adjusted and new products have been developed to meet shifting consumption behaviors. Be inspired by these COVID-19 seafood success stories from around the world while being entertained by cooking demonstrations highlighting simple seafood recipes from Asia, Europe and North America.

Seafood Nutrition Partnership President Linda Cornish shares the results of the “Eat Seafood America!” consumer campaign in the United States.

Join us for a live panel discussion on the effort to fund the U.S. National Seafood Council, which more than 60 organizations supported in a letter to Congress in May. This is the first time that representatives of the National Seafood Council Task Force will be speaking together publicly.

Sponsor videos and trivia.

Mike Berthet of Best Aquaculture Practices and nutritionist Jessica Miller show off their salmon-cooking skills.

Dr. Tan Hongxin, dean of Shanghai Ocean University’s College of Fisheries and Life Science and chief scientist at Dingdong Mai Cai, explains how China is meeting the burgeoning demand for home delivery of live seafood.

Nutritionist Kim Galeaz and Angelina Liu of Hainan Xiangtai Fishery Co. Ltd. show off their tilapia-cooking skills.

The results are in! Our guest chefs share their salmon and tilapia dishes.

GSA’s Steve Hart moderates a panel discussion on marketing strategies and new product development with Linda Cornish of Seafood Nutrition Partnership, Dr. Tan Hongxin or Shanghai Ocean University/Dingdong Mai Cai, Jemma McCowan of New Zealand King Salmon Co. and Tommy Sekiguchi of Mitsui & Co.

In Session 4, speakers will break down the supply chain into four key areas — fisheries, vessels, ports and processing plants — and examine each area for social risk, as risks vary from nutrition needs and access for livelihoods to worker safety, poor working conditions, poor recruitment and training, and modern slavery. Experts in each area will explain ways in which such risks may be not only mitigated for seafood buyers but actually rectified.

Sponsor videos and trivia.

The climate crisis is a defining issue of our time, and its effects are already looming with flooding in China, Germany, Belgium, Uganda and India, wildfires in California, Turkey and Siberia, and new warnings in the prestigious journal Nature that weakening Atlantic Ocean currents may lead to irreversible extreme cold in Europe and parts of North America. Governments are urgently responding. Just recently, the European Union pledged to become the first climate-neutral continent by 2050, while China is planning to launch the world’s largest emissions-trading program and U.S. legislators are calling for a carbon tariff on polluting countries. What can the aquaculture and fisheries industries do to mitigate the impacts of climate change? Find out by participating in the live stream of GOAL 2021 Virtual Event Session 5, “Feeling the Heat: What is Seafood’s Role in Mitigating the Impacts of Climate Change?”

Oyumaa de Jong, part of Rabobank’s Sustainable Debt Capital Markets team, will review impending changes to climate change policy and discuss options for green financing

Erik Lanssen, general manager of Selfa Arctic AS, will discuss electrification in fisheries as well as aquaculture. His Norwegian company builds hybrid fishing vessels. Lanssen’s mission is to reduce Norway’s diesel consumption by 80 million liters.

Richard Newton, research fellow at the University of Stirling, will discuss greenhouse gas emissions from feeds and feed ingredients. He’s chairing the Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) Vanguard standard on climate action.

Dave, Robb, SeaFurther Sustainability Program Lead for Cargill Animal Nutrition & Health, will review carbon emissions from different forms of aquaculture. He co-authored a recent peer-reviewed study that found that global aquaculture accounts for only 0.49 percent of anthropogenic GHG emissions, similar in magnitude to the emissions from sheep production.

David Hine, owner of Land & Water Management Pty. Ltd., will discuss carbon farming in Australia, where a carbon-farming program has been in place for about a decade. The aim of carbon farming is to increase the rate at which carbon is sequestered into soil and plant material, creating a net loss of carbon from the atmosphere.

GSA President and Founder George Chamberlain will moderate a panel discussion with the five presenters. The live panel discussion features audience question-and-answer and polling.

Iain Shone, director of market development-Europe for the Global Seafood Alliance, kicks off the session with his opening remarks.

Piers Hart, global lead for aquaculture for the World Wildlife Fund, sets the scene for the session by discussing the global food system’s impact on land and water use, biodiversity loss and climate change.

Following Piers Hart’s presentation, Aisla Jones of The Co-op in the United Kingdom and Gert le Roux of Woolworths South Africa join GSA’s Iain Shone to discuss the global food system and efforts to reduce the global seafood industry’s carbon footprint, with a focus on aquafeeds.

Rowan Yearsley of Marifeed joins Gert le Roux of Woolworths South Africa for an on-the-ground account of latest developments in abalone feeds and feeding techniques.

In this series of presentations, representatives of the feed-manufacturing and feed-ingredients sectors provides updates on how their respective sector is contributing to the reduction of global seafood industry’s carbon footprint. Presenters include Jorge Díaz of Skretting (feed manufacturing), Clément Ray (insect meal), Chris Haacke of Corbion (microalgae) and Enno Fricke and Vanessa Fuchs of the Alfred Wegener Institute (R&D and byproducts).

Libby Woodhatch of MarinTrust and James Fox Davies of Three-Sixty Aquaculture and chair of the Aquaculture Leadership Group for England meet with GSA’s Iain Shone on the seafront at Weymouth in the UK to close out the session with a discussion on what it will really take to meet the aquafeeds sustainability challenge.

GOAL 2021 Virtual Event Session 7, “Green Financing as a Tool for Sustainable Seafood Development,” will provide a status report on green debt financing in the salmon-farming sector, which has experienced a 17-fold increase in green bonds and loans in the past two years. This session will also provide a banker’s view of the sustainable bond market for seafood. Following four presentations is a live panel discussion featuring audience Q&A.