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Food Lifeline labels canned salmon donation

Canned Salmon Stocks the Pantry

Over 205,000 lbs of canned salmon, or 1,025,000 servings, recently helped boost the stores at food banks. This high value commodity provides an important protein often not available to the food bank system. Canned salmon is important to food banks due to its long shelf life and high nutritional value. According to a recent alert from the National Fisheries Institute, "...an April 2009 study published in the Public Library of Science ranked low seafood intake as the second largest cause of diet-related deaths in America, just behind high salt consumption. The study estimated 84,000 deaths in the U.S. are linked to omega-3 deficiency caused by Americans not eating enough fish." (May 20, 2010, NFI)

SeaShare worked with Labeling Services, Inc., Kent Warehouse and Labeling, LLC, Ocean Beauty Seafoods and Yard Arm Knot to obtain the donated cans. Totem Ocean generously donated transport to Anchorage. Receiving food banks were Food Bank of Alaska, Food Lifeline - Seattle, and Helpline House - Bainbridge Island.