A truckload of salmon and halibut steaks will leave Seattle on Friday en route to San Francisco/Marin Food Bank. This will represent almost 140,000 servings of seafood. This fish was caught in Jan/Feb. by fishermen in the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska and donated to SeaShare for domestic hunger relief. But it's not a simple process. Here is how SeaShare brings partners together for this model:
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SeaShare presented Trident Seafoods with its 2015 NFI (National Fisheries Institute) Donor of the Year award on Monday at the annual Alaska Go Wild! reception at the Seaport Hotel.
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Boston Visitors and Convention Bureau honored Diversified Communications by presenting a check to SeaShare at the International Seafood Expo North America in Boston this past week. Diversified has been a generous donor to SeaShare for many years, donating print and online media coverage as well as event opportunities at the annual Boston show.
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This month SeaShare welcomes Tom Enlow to our Board of Directors. Growing up in the Pacific Northwest, Tom was educated at Brigham Young and Seattle Pacific University to teach secondary education. In February of 1989, after having taught and coached high school students for several years, he took his experiences in warehousing and inventory from his summer job at a friend's company, joined UniSea and relocated to Dutch Harbor/Unalaska. Tom began his career with UniSea in inventory control, and soon moved on to production support and administrative management. In 1999, Tom was assigned to direct UniSea's Hospitality Division by managing the operations of the Grand Aleutian Hotel and the Harbor View Inn and their associated food, beverage, and sales outlets. In 2013 Tom was promoted to Executive Vice President of UniSea where he works closely with the Directors and Managers of UniSea's Dutch Harbor Operations. In January of 2015 Tom was promoted to President CEO of UniSea following the sudden and unexpected passing of UniSea CEO Terry Shaff who was a longtime Director and supporter of SeaShare.
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E&E Foods has been a strategic partner with SeaShare for several years. They provide discounted processing and packaging services, and they donate financially. Last year alone E&E processed over 450,000 lbs salmon and halibut for Seashare, taking headed and gutted fish and cutting them into beautiful steak portions. The steaks were then water glazed and packed in sleeves and cases for transport to food banks across the nation and in Alaska.
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If you've never had sardines, you're in for a treat. It may seem a little daunting at first, but here are 12 ways for you to add some healthy omega-3's to your diet. For more information and recipes on eating nutritious seafood, visit Oldways Preservation Trust.
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Thanks to our Partners at Seafood Nutrition and National Fisheries Institute, here is a salad recipe they made filled with omega-3 fatty acids, protein and a many important vitamins and minerals. This is a beautiful salad that incorporates the bounty from your local farmers market and salmon. This is a very satisfying and filling dish.
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Why do we deliver seafood to food banks instead of chicken or beef? Seafood packs a punch when it comes to nutrition. It not only provides our bodies with essential proteins, but also with fish oils and omega-3 fatty acids. It works wonders for the body.
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The National Fisheries Institute's Future Leaders program is a unique hands-on program for industry professionals who are rising in their companies. No other setting combines this kind of in-depth exposure to such a diversity of issues along with the opportunity to network and learn with a small group of industry peers representing the leaders of today and tomorrow. The program's mission is to promote future leaders in the industry through a year-long program consisting of four 2-day sessions designed to enhance knowledge and leadership skills in production, sales, companies and the seafood industry.
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Did you know there is a nautical definition for partner? A wooden framework used to strengthen a ship's deck at the point where a mast or other structure passes through it. I think this provides an apt description of the framework in which SeaShare works with our partners. SeaShare is at the center, surrounded by individual and corporate donors that partner together to get seafood to food banks across the country.
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Fish is not just a holiday dish. The FDA recommends that people eat seafood at least twice a week. This makes having access to seafood even more important for low-income families and individuals who might not be able to afford it.
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If you have never tasted Tom Yum soup you are in for a treat! This delicious sour and spicy Thai soup will keep you warm and healthy during this winter season. Thanks to Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute here is a version using Alaskan Pollock that is refreshing and light.
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A family from SE Alaska will find their stay a little easier with traditional seafood donated by SeaShare to Seattle Children's Hospital/Ronald McDonald House.
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SeaShare sent 600 lbs. of seafood products to Food Lifeline this week thanks to a generous donation from Cannon Fish in Seattle. Scott Sandvig (above) is also a member of the National Fisheries Institute Future Leaders Class of 2014. This group of industry leaders has been busy throughout the year working with SeaShare to raise funds and seafood items for food banks throughout the nation. Collectively, they have generated almost 134,000 lbs of seafood with SeaShare.
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SeaShare in Bainbridge Island, Wash., has been doing the great work of distributing seafood to food banks across the country for around 20 years. This year, the organization fed high quality seafood to millions of people, but there is still more to do.
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This time of year, many of us have been buying pasta or cans of soup to contribute to food drives. But food banks say they could use donations that are more protein-rich. That's exactly what SeaShare, a Bainbridge Island nonprofit, delivers in a unique way.
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Regal Springs Tilapia recently donated 25,000 lbs of tilapia loins to Seashare that we sent to Feeding South Florida in Miami and Second Harvest Food Bank of Greater New Orleans in Louisiana. Regal Springs has been a welcome partner with SeaShare, recognizing the need for nutritious seafood on everyone's plates.
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At United States Seafoods, LLC, we believe everyone should have access to healthy food. Fish harvested by crews aboard our 7 trawlers off the coast of Alaska feed people all over the world. Our business depends on the fisheries we participate in being sustainable, and we strive to be responsible ocean stewards. SeaShare enables us to donate fish that would otherwise by regulation be required to be thrown overboard and wasted. Now those fish end up in food banks that serve communities and families in Alaska and around the United States.
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SeaShare is sending salmon raised and donated by Bellingham Technical College Fisheries & Aquaculture students to feed hungry people in the Northwest. Bellingham Food Bank will receive some of the frozen salmon fillets, the end result of innovative donors. The donation is made possible by a partnership, between SeaShare, Bellingham Technical Collegeand Bornstein Seafoods.
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A lot goes into making SeaShare as effective and efficient as it is. From the fishing vessels in the Bering Sea to the food banks as far as Boston, SeaShare brings together its partners to get high-grade, quality fish to a distributable form for people in need.
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