The growing amount of Plastic pollution in our oceans will outweigh the entire ocean fish biomass by the year 2050!

During this week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, a report was released by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation that stated there will be more plastic pollution than fish in terms of weight in the world's oceans by 2050!

This possibility is tremendously disconcerting to Sea Port because such a massive mix of slowly decomposing plastic compounds in our oceans may have negative consequences along the entire marine food chain.  From a precautionary perspective, the seafood industry should add the issue of oceanic plastic pollution to the other ocean health issues of our time such as ocean warming, acidification, and overfishing. The seafood industry depends upon healthy and productive marine ecosystems and we need to be vigilant to all the threats that may jeopardize our long-term business viability.   

Sea Port concurs with the MacArthur report that by transforming to a “circular economy” we will help reduce plastic ocean pollution (along with many other sources of pollution).  Sea Port foresees that this economic transformation will actually be greatly aided by the projection that by the year 2050 over seventy percent of us will be concentrated in large cities.  Sea Port believes that this will allow economically efficient hyper-recycling of the majority of the resources used to advance and maintain our modern societies. By the year 2050, we therefore predict that there will be very little plastic waste entering our precious and productive aquatic ecosystems due to hyper-recycling in this new coming circular economic paradigm.

Please review Sea Port’s past blog post regarding our viewpoint on hyper-recycling: http://goblueseafoodsustainability.blogspot.com/2015/04/sevenbillion-city-dwellers-implementing.html

Sea Port believes that protecting the productive capacities of our global aquatic ecosystems from all potential threats is essential for assuring our wellbeing going forward as our world population swells to 10 billion by the year 2050.

Please Go Blue!  For Our Environment – For Sustainability – For Our Health

Sincerely,

David Glaubke, Director of Sustainability Initiatives

Sea Port Products

“20 by 20” Seafood Campaign

This January’s release of the new Dietary Guidelines for Americans will greatly encourage increased seafood consumption in the coming New Year!

Sea Port is looking forward to a very bright New Year for seafood consumption in the United States due to the release on January 7^th of the 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Never before has our U.S. government so strongly encouraged the increased consumption of seafood by directing that Americans replace servings of beef, pork, and other terrestrially produced animal proteins with seafood to bring the consumption level of seafood up to the recommended frequency of at least two times per week.

The serving of seafood at least twice a week (approximately 8-12 ounces total) to obtain unique essential nutrients such as omega 3s is now recommended for the majority of Americans and for women who are pregnant or breastfeeding.  Currently this level of seafood consumption is only being practiced by 10% of Americans (across all age-sex groups).  This needs to change!

Sea Port will strongly support the new dietary guidelines as we work diligently to gain the support of both our customers and suppliers to join our “20 by 20” Seafood Campaign to bring our per capita seafood consumption up to 20 pounds (currently around 14.6) by the year 2020.  This can be quickly accomplished if we all simply followed the new guidelines!

Please join our “20 by 20” initiative in the coming New Year as we all promote the new guidelines to help advance both the health of our nation and the health of our beautiful blue planet.

Go Blue! For Our Health – For Our Environment – For Sustainability

Happy New Year!

Sincerely, Dave