Go Blue! Seafood Sustainability

The Ideal of the Perfectly Sustainable Seafood is an Unending Pursuit

Three years ago when Sea Port created the Go Blue!Seafood Sustainability Spectrum® for each of our seafood items (example above) we purposely indicated that there was no spectrum end-point that represented a lasting achievement of a perfectly sustainable seafood, but rather we showed a wave graphic that communicated that sustainability is an unending pursuit rather than a permanently attainable and static destination.

Sea Port believes that our physical world and all its living creatures are forever in a constant dynamic state of change with countless interconnections and this makes reaching the perfectly sustainable seafood ideal from wild fisheries and aquaculture inherently elusive and unobtainable in the long run.

However, Sea Port adamantly believes that efforts to produce seafood more sustainably should be just as perpetual as the constant state of change that is characteristic of our entire biosphere.  This will result in the most efficient use of our aquatic resources to advance the future of humanity.

Our seafood industry has historically been able to adapt to whatever Mother Nature has thrown at it.  However, today we are living in a new era in which negative environmental changes are created by humanity’s actions as it struggles to utilize the Earth’s resources in order to survive and prosper. This new era in the history of the world is coined the Anthropocene Epoch.   In this new era, the activities of humans are negatively affecting our entire biosphere  and threatening our ability to advance sustainable seafood production from both wild fisheries and aquaculture.  

For years, Sea Port has brought attention to these emerging human caused impacts that affect wild fisheries and aquaculture such as increasing ocean acidification and temperature; increasing marine dead zones; increasing loss of productive riparian and marine coastal habitats; and the increasing worldwide scarcity of freshwater.

Now is the time for the global seafood community to unite and cooperatively work toward mitigating, changing, and stopping the man-made negative impacts that foul the very big house we all live in; planet Earth.  This is our generation’s challenge in this new Anthropocene Epoch.  Sea Port is confident that by working together we can assure that our worldwide seafood production will get ever closer to that elusive ideal of the perfectly sustainable seafood.

Please catch our wave and participate in our unending pursuit of the perfectly sustainable seafood ideal as we boldly acknowledge and confront the emerging man-made environmental challenges of the new Anthropocene Epoch.

Sincerely,

David Glaubke – Director of Sustainability Initiatives