Volunteers are the backbone of every nonprofit, providing countless hours of support. In honor of National Volunteer Week, we’d like to spotlight the wonderful work done by the SeaShare board of directors! From attending regular meetings where they provide feedback and guidance, to promoting our cause to the industry, the SeaShare board has our back!!
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We recently returned from Seafood Expo North America in Boston after the show’s two-year hiatus due to the pandemic, and boy was it great to see everyone in person! Despite the initial trepidation and awkward “can we hug or shake hands?” moments, we all got down to the business of talking fish.
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“It’s been a challenging two years”— said everyone, everywhere. The food bank network continues to experience a huge increase in demand, ranging from approximately 60 percent spike in traffic in mid-2020 to 50 percent at the end of last year. The difference for food banks now is the same situation that is hitting all consumers — the price of all goods is going up. Food at home costs are up 9.3 percent in October 2021 relative to January 2020. To add insult to injury, cost increases across the supply chain have made donations to food banks more expensive.
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The food waste recovery movement, organized by ReFED, has been hard at work to not just calculate the problem at hand, but to also find ways to reduce food waste. SeaShare is a member of the ReFED Insights Engine, an online data center designed to serve as the next generation of data, insights, and guidance on U.S. food waste. This data is meant to lay the foundation for action to reduce food waste and loss in the United States by 50% by 2030, which is one of the targets of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals for nations worldwide.
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An additional 24,000 pounds (96,000 servings) of frozen salmon is headed to villages on the Yukon, thanks to the generosity of Alaska processors, transportation companies and U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak. This is the second shipment to the Yukon: Last month Bristol Bay seafood processors collected 25,000 pounds of salmon for communities on the Yukon, which faced a winter without salmon due to the closure of subsistence fisheries.
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With the delta variant spreading across the country, food bank traffic still continues at record high levels. This time last year much of the seafood destined for the foodservice market was re-routed into retail and food bank channels instead. Restaurant openings this year provided much relief to both suppliers and consumers, however the volume of protein to food banks has dwindled.
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When it comes to feeding hungry people, the general rule of thumb is you do what you need to do to get the job done. And when it comes to feeding those in need in Alaska, it takes an entire industry, from fishermen to processors to transportation, to get the job done.
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The pandemic panic may be easing as more Americans get vaccinated and mask mandates start to go away, but this doesn’t mean there are fewer hungry people. Feeding America projects that 42 million people (1 in 8), including 13 million children (1 in 6) may experience food insecurity this year. Those who have been most impacted by the pandemic were food insecure or at risk of food insecurity before COVID-19 and are facing greater hardship since the pandemic began.
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April 13, 2021
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SeaShare sent four truckloads (144,000 pounds!) of seafood from Channel Fish Processing in Boston to food banks in Louisiana, Michigan, and New York in the end of March. This is one of several large projects we’ve pursued to generate additional protein for food banks across the country during the pandemic.
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Bainbridge Island, WA —SeaShare is pleased to announce that Rasmus Soerensen recently joined its Board of Directors. Soerensen is Executive VP of Global Sales and Marketing at American Seafoods Company LLC, where he has worked since February 2004. He is responsible for production planning, worldwide disposition of products, and market strategy development.
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January 21, 2021
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This has been an unprecedented year. The pandemic has taken a drastic toll on our American way of life. But it’s also given us a new perspective to recognize the many things we have to be thankful for.
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Many of our supporters are in the seafood industry, and therefore know October is #NationalSeafoodMonth. This is the time when the industry gets to say, loud and proud, to #EatSeafoodAmerica! It’s delicious, creates jobs, and it’s GOOD For You!!
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Seafood is an expensive protein for foodbanks to purchase, and the logistics of sourcing products from remote areas such as Alaska make getting this nutritious protein to those in need even more difficult. This has been SeaShare’s niche for over 25 years – sourcing and dealing with the logistics of getting seafood into Feeding America food banks.
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Thanks to Trident Seafoods, SeaShare has just sent 14,681 pounds of seafood to the Southeast Alaska Food Bank in Juneau. This seafood was delivereid to the refurbished freezer container that SeaShare installed for the SE Alaska Food Bank in 2019, greatly increasing the food bank's ability to store frozen food for local distribution.
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SeaShare is excited to announce that we have received one of the very first ReFED COVID-19 Food Waste Solutions grants. This grant is being used to urgently send 750,000 seafood to food banks and feeding centers across the country. “COVID-19 has disrupted the regular flow of the food supply chain, making it difficult to get fresh, healthy food to the people who need it most and increasing the amount of food insecurity,” said Alexandria Coari, Capital and Innovation Director at ReFED, a national nonprofit working to advance solutions to reduce the amount of food waste. “The work of organizations like SeaShare is urgent, and we’re excited to get them the critical support they need from the ReFED COVID-19 Food Waste Solutions Fund.”
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E&E Foods has just generously donated 110,000 pounds of nutritious wild Alaska smelt for food banks, and SeaShare helped coordinate the first delivery for the Food Bank of Alaska - 30,000 pounds (120,000 servings) - with three more similarly sized donations scheduled to help address the growing needs in communities hit by the COVID-19 virus.
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SeaShare partners with Feeding America’s national network of food banks to donate two million servings of high-protein seafood to Americans who struggle with hunger in these uncertain times.
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This map shows all of the locations in Alaska where SeaShare has distributed seafood. Orange locations are places where SeaShare directly distributes to food banks/community groups. Blue locations receive our seafood from distribution partners. You can view an interactive version of this map at: https://drive.google.com/open?...
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