Seafood Processors, Retailers Join To Save Declining Fisheries
January 17, 2011 | 1 min to read
When the world's seafood industry convenes in Vancouver this month, corporate CEOs and retail executives will be sharing the stage with the very people who might have been picketing their offices and stores a few short years ago.
About 600 scientists, sustainability activists and certifiers, seafood purchasers and multinational business chiefs will gather at the Seafood Summit 2011 with the common goal of saving the world's wild fish stocks from collapse.
The summit began nine years ago as a gathering for non-government organizations, said Bill Wareham, a representative of Canada's national seafood sustainability initiative SeaChoice and a marine conservation specialist with the David Suzuki Foundation.
But the industry's business leaders began to show up in force about three years ago, he said.
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