We recently completed environmental impact assessments for each of our Sea Port seafood items to establish their relative sustainability status. We subsequently created our Go Blue! Seafood Sustainability Spectrum to visually represent these sustainability status determinations as discrete initial markings or starting positions along this progressive spectrum that leads to the ultimate goal of the perfectly sustainable seafood.
In short, we had to get started by making these relative determinations of sustainability in order to judge/measure the progress of our corporate goal of advancing all our seafood items towards becoming more environmentally sustainable. Do we believe it is possible to achieve "perfect sustainability"?; no, but it needs to be our committed end goal so that our corporate sustainability efforts will forever be unending in nature.
The Go Blue! Seafood Sustainability Spectrum shown above is for our farmed white shrimp. These assessment positions are only singlesnap shots in time and because of this, we will continually update the sustainability assessments and re-position our seafood items along our spectrums as they perpetually advance towards improved sustainability.
- Please follow this link to learn more about our Go Blue! Seafood Sustainability Spectrum.
Suggested subtopics:
- Can the production of wild and farmed seafood ever be perfectly sustainable?
- If not, what combination of factors/variables prevent the attainment of this ideal goal?
* Growing world population?
* Growing middle class in Asia (especially China)?
* Climate change?
* Ocean acidification?
* Technology shortfalls in water treatment?
* Increasing energy costs?
* Lack of data concerning wild stocks and their life cycles?
* Inadequate wild fishery management schemes and aquaculture practices?
* Lack of suitable land and water sites?
* Constraints for aquaculture feeds that are derived from aquatic and terrestrial resources?
* Social & economic constraints?
* Increasing pollution of land, water, and air?
* Disease problems?
* The decrease of genetic diversity?
* The overall dynamic state of nature and human behavior?
Thank you and please feel free to comment on other related topics.......Sincerely, Dave
