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Job Titles Of Attendees Will Include:
Aquaculture and Fisheries Experts
- Buyers - Fresh/Frozen Meat & Seafood
- Category Managers, Seafood
- Fish/Fresh Fish Buyers
- Project Managers, Seafood Perishable Procurement Quality Assurance Specialists
plus Directors, SVP's and VP's of
- Seafood Sustainability
- Conservation
- Corporate Strategy & Sustainability
- Corporate Affairs
- Corporate Purchasing
- CSR
- Environmental Sustainability
- Environmental, Health and Safety
- Marketing
- Purchasing
- Supply Chain
- Seafood Merchandising
- Sustainability and Aquaculture
- Marine Conservation
- Environment
- Health, Safety and Environment
- Perishables
- Technical
- Strategic Sourcing
- Refrigeration
- Seafood Sustainability
- Worldwide Quality Assurance
From The Global Seafood Industry (fishers, processors, brokers, wholesalers/ distributors, manufacturers, retail/ restaurateurs/ food service) plus
- National Government Bodies
- NGOs
- Research institutes
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Speakers for the summit include:
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Chuck Anderson
Former Vice President, Seafood Procurement
Ahold |
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Chuck Anderson is a long time retail supermarket seafood procurement executive. Chuck spent 19 years in seafood procurement for Ahold USA and various Ahold retail chains in the United States. Chuck was integral in the development of Ahold USA's socially responsible sourcing policies developed in partnership with the New England Aquarium's Choice Catch program. Chuck was a key seafood procurement manager for HEB supermarkets in Texas, and most recently is working with Sousa Seafood in Boston. Chuck continues to work closely with retailers and other stakeholders on seafood sourcing and seafood sustainability issues.
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Nadia Bouffard
Director General, Fisheries Renewal
Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada |
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Nadia Bouffard is currently Director General of Fisheries Renewal in the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. Her responsibilities include the modernization and renewal of fisheries management governance, policies and tools to help transition the fisheries sector into a more competitive and environmentally sustainable sector, in stewardship with partners and stakeholders across Canada.
Ms. Bouffard holds a law degree from the University of Ottawa (1986) and was a partner in a private Law Firm until she joined the Public Service in 1988. Ms. Bouffard has worked in various positions with DFO since 1993. She was a Legal Advisor on fisheries management issues and as such, worked on previous legislation projects to amend and replace the current Fisheries Act and to implement various international fisheries and oceans treaties. She moved to the international sector of DFO and acted as Director of International Pacific issues until she moved to work on international issues relating to Canada's East Coast and the North. She represented Canada in many international meetings and fora, including at the United Nations, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the OECD, as well as international fisheries commissions such as NAFO and ICCAT. She also headed many Canadian delegations on bilateral meetings, namely Canada-Greenland Talks.
Prior to working with DFO, Ms. Bouffard worked as legal counsel for Energy, Mines and Resources and the National Energy Board.
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Paolo Bray
Director
Friend of the Sea
European Director of the Earth Island Institute’s Dolphin-Safe Project |
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Paolo Bray, Italian born in Wiesbaden (Germany). Lived, studied and worked in Switzerland, UK, Italy and in most European, North and South American countries. His economist background (University Bocconi of Milan) has determined his approach to environmental issues and related project development, providing him with full understanding of companies' needs and objectives and eco-market drives. This, together with strong ethical and conservation focused approach, allowed Mr. Bray to successfully start, develop and lead some of the most influent and widespread sustainable fisheries certification schemes: the Dolphin-Safe project (www.dolphinsafetuna.org) of the San Francisco based NGO Earth Island Institute (www.earthisland.org), and the Friend of the Sea project (www.friendofthesea.org) for the certification and promotion of seafood from sustainable fisheries and aquaculture.
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Bill Carvalho
President
Wild Planet Foods |
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Bill Carvalho started his career in the seafood industry in 1990 starting his namesake company – Carvalho Fisheries which became a significant first receiver/producer of Dungeness crab, albacore tuna, troll-king salmon and hook and line rockfish. In 2004 he founded Wild Planet Foods which has focused its attention on shelf-stable seafood from eco-preferable fisheries. In 2008 Wild Planet Foods acquired Carvalho Fisheries with the help of private equity partner Sea Change Fund. Bill is also a director and officer of the American Fisherman’s Research Foundation dedicated to scientific research and public education in the North Pacific albacore fishery.
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Giovanni Comin
CEO
Central Coast Seafood |
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Giovanni Comin, sole owner and visionary for Central Coast Seafood, grew up in this family business. His youth was spent working with his Grandfather and Mother in their Italian family deli "Lucky's" in Santa Barbara, California. There he learned the value of customer service, specialty products, and pride of a job well done. In his teens, Giovanni began working with his stepfather, Michael DeGarimore, on the docks in Morro Bay as Central Coast Seafood began to establish itself as a distributor of the finest seafood local fishermen could produce. With 6-day a week deliveries from San Francisco to Santa Barbara and inland to the San Joaquin Valley, Central Coast Seafood services over 300 restaurants and grocers in California.
Giovanni witnessed first-hand the ongoing battle between the entrepreneurial dreams of fishermen and the restrictive ideals of environmentalists. As it’s in everyone’s best interest for Earth’s Oceans to thrive, Giovanni has developed strong relationships with FishWiseTM , the Local Nature Conservancy and California Fisheries Fund and is dedicated to bridging the gap by promoting sustainable seafood through consumer education, purchasing power and creative marketing. Through these relationships, Giovanni is determined to see Central Coast Seafood break a new ground in the seafood industry as we are seeing tried and true fishermen sit at Central Coast Seafood’s table with the country’s brightest environmentalists.
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Mike Crispino
Manager of Media Communications
International Seafood Sustainability Foundation |
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Mike Crispino is Manager of Media Communications for the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation, a global partnership among the tuna industry, scientists and WWF, the global conservation organization. ISSF launched in March of this year with a focus on supporting regional fisheries management organizations and undertaking science-based initiatives for the sustainability of global tuna stocks that support shelf-stable products and a dedication to conserving ocean health.
Before joining ISSF, Mike worked as a television broadcast journalist, winning several awards for his reporting. He holds a BS in Communications from the Plattsburgh State University of New York.
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Dr. Dorothy Jane Dankel
Researcher
Institute of Marine Research |
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Dr. Dorothy Jane Dankel was born and raised in Kendallville, Indiana (USA) and earned a bachelor of arts degree in biology and French from Hillsdale College in Michigan in 2001. In 2004, she finished her masters degree at the University of Bergen in fisheries biology and management. She completed her doctoral work in fisheries management at the Department of Biology, University of Bergen (Norway) and Norway's Institute of Marine Research (IMR), during which she also completed research grants from the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria, and a fellowship at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth School for Marine Science and Technology. Dorothy continues participating in several scientific working groups in the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) and currently works as a researcher at IMR in Bergen on topics including holistic fisheries management strategies by incorporating bio-socio-economic models in policy making.
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Ernesto Godelman
Founder
CeDePesca |
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Ernesto Godelman is an engineer, living in Mar del Plata (Argentina), and for over a decade has been involved in the sustainability of fisheries, considering it a stepping stone for improving the quality of life within communities such as his own. His postgraduate studies include Fishery Administration and Onboard Fishing Vessel Observation. Ernesto founded CeDePesca (Centro Desarrollo y Pesca Sustentable), an original NGO which has gradually achieved an important presence in Latin America. He is also a consultant or member for organizations such as the Sustainable Fisheries Partnerships, Marine Stewardship Council, World Ocean Network and the International Collective in Support of Fishermen and Fishworkers.
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Mark Helvey
Assistant Regional Administrator
NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)
Southwest Region in Long Beach, California |
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Mark Helvey is the Assistant Regional Administrator for Sustainable Fisheries with NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), Southwest Region in Long Beach, California. His principal area of responsibility is the conservation and management of fishery resources especially highly migratory and coastal pelagic species. Prior to joining NMFS, Mr. Helvey was a research associate at Occidental College in Los Angeles, California. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of California, Santa Barbara and the University of Arizona, respectively, and an M.B.A. degree from California State University, Long Beach.
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Paul Holthus
Executive Director
World Ocean Council |
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Paul is founding Executive Director of the World Ocean Council which brings together the international ocean business community to catalyze leadership and collaboration in addressing marine environmental issues in support of improved industry operations. A wide range of ocean companies from fisheries, aquaculture, oil and gas, shipping, tourism, renewable energy, ports, and more are coming together under the World Ocean Council leadership alliance for “Corporate Ocean Responsibility”.
Paul works with the private sector and market forces to develop practical solutions for achieving sustainable development and addressing marine environmental issues. He has worked on projects in over 30 countries in Asia, the Pacific, Central America and West Africa. As a consultant on sustainable development, Paul works with companies, industry associations, UN agencies, international NGOs and foundations, especially in the areas of oil and gas, fisheries, aquaculture, standards and certification.
Past positions include: Deputy Director for the Global Marine and Coastal Program of IUCN - The World Conservation Union; Senior Officer in the Asia-Pacific Program of The Nature Conservancy; and Senior Program Officer of the UNEP South Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP).
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Jim Humphreys
Fisheries Director Americas
Marine Stewardship Council |
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Jim Humphreys joined the London-based Marine Stewardship Council in 1999. The Marine Stewardship Council is the world's leading seafood ecolabeling program with over 2500 product lines being sold in over 40 countries. As Fisheries Director - Americas, he represents the MSC's programs to a variety of fisheries groups in North America, Latin America and the Caribbean. Humphreys has a B.S. degree in Fisheries Science from Oregon State University and an M.S. degree in Natural Resources from the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point. Prior to joining the MSC, Humphreys worked for 20 years with Sea Grant Marine Advisory Programs in Michigan and Washington and with the seafood industry on the US West Coast, British Columbia, and Alaska.
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Mathias Ismail
Managing Director
OSO Delta Peche |
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Born in Anstirabe (Madagascar), internationally educated in Europe and in the USA, Mathias ISMAIL has been directly exposed to the seafood industry and particularly Madagascan prawns for 9 years, when he joined OSO, the premium Brand of Madagascan wild and organic prawns.
Under Mathias’s leadership, OSO went vertical, investing in what has become the World very first Organic prawn farm, certified under France Official “AB Organic Label”. At the same time, Mathias made OSO to invest in a sustainable Madagascan prawn fishing operation that currently operates 14 trawlers off the West coast of Madagascar. OSO has become today a fully vertical company, from organic farming, fishing, marketing and distribution working directly with Europe key industry players such as Atlantys, Monoprix, Auchan, Continente, Carrefour and one of the most demanding in term of environmental sustainability, Marks & Spencer (UK).
These achievements, particularly in the fields of premium organic certified prawns, have been recognised several times by European consumers. OSO has been elected “Best Taste of the Year” in France 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009. OSO was ranked by the UK media The Observer “Top 10 Seafood 2007”.
On March 15th 2009, the international NGO Seafood Choices Alliance will honour Mathias ISMAIL and his achievements at OSO by announcing his election to the title of “Seafood Champions 2009”
Mathias ISMAIL is graduated from Lyon Graduate School of Business (EM Lyon, France), he holds a Master Degree in Economics from Paris-La Sorbonne University (France) and is holding an aircraft multi-engine turbine, instrument rating, fixed wing certificate (Federal Aviation Administration,USA).
Mathias also has held an official position as “International Trade Advisor” for the French Government from 1999 until 2009.
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Meredith Lopuch
Deputy Director - Sustainable Seafood Initiative
World Wildlife Fund |
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Meredith Lopuch is based in WWF’s California Marine Office. As the Deputy Director of WWF’s Sustainable Seafood Initiative Meredith works with major seafood buyers to encourage and assist them in using their purchasing power to secure seafood from environmentally sustainable sources, to assess current seafood supply chains for sustainability of supply, and to use their supply chain to improve fisheries. In addition, Meredith directs WWF’s community fisheries projects which develops opportunities for community fisheries in priority marine ecoregions around the world to become more sustainable. In addition to her international work, Meredith has also worked on a number of California marine conservation initiatives including deep-sea seamount protection and marine protected area development in the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. Before joining WWF in 2000, she spent time at Stanford University’s Hopkins Marine Station, Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Meredith has a B.A. in economics, a B.S. in biology—with a focus in marine biology—and an M.S. in environmental studies and environmental economics from Stanford University.
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Sveinn Margeirsson
Head of the Value Chain and Processing Division
Matis |
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Sveinn Margeirsson is the Head of the Value Chain Division at Matis, an innovative and dynamic R&D institute focusing on innovation in food and biotechnology that offers its services both in Iceland and abroad. He holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Iceland/Danish Techn. University and his PhD project, Processing forecast of cod. Decision making in the cod industry based on recording and analysis of value chain data, adds up to a long list of research works, articles and presentations concerning food traceability, economic profits and management of the value chain of seafood in Iceland, user software and technology driven collaboration between research bodies, the seafood industry, authorities and other stakeholders.
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Dr Moses Maurihungirire
Director of Marine Fisheries Research
Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources, Namibia |
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Dr Moses Maurihungirire obtained his phD in Marine and Estuarine Environmental Sciences from the University of Maryland and is the Director of Marine Fisheries Research at Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources, Namibia.
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J. Miguel Medialdea
Quality & Environment Manager
Veta la Palma fish-farm, Pesquerías Isla Mayor, S.A. |
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J. Miguel Medialdea is the Quality & Environment Manager of Veta la Palma, a large private estate located in SW Spain, currently considered a referent in the application of production methods on sustainable basis. He mainly concentrates his activity of the management of fish-farming quality system and the relationships between production and nature enhancement.
He is a graduate in Biology of the University of Sevilla (1990), where he got a Major in Ecology and worked, as full-time researcher, in the Department of Ecoloy & Plant Biology from 1990 to 1992.
From 1992 to 1994, he got a scholarship from the National Fellowship Program for the Improvement of Researchers Abroad (Spain Ministry of Education and Culture), and joined the Wildlife Ecology Group, Department of Zoology and Marine Biology, University of Dar es Salaam (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania), where developed a two-year research on Spatio-Temporal Distribution and Recruitment in the Ungulates: Ecology and Social Behaviour of the Maasai giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis tippelskirchi) in Mikumi National Park (Tanzania).
After going back to Spain, he joined the Department of Environmental Engineering, Technical College, University of Sevilla, and worked as full-time researcher with a scholarship from the National Plan of R + D, Spain Ministry of Education and Culture, in different projects regarding water management. His activities in that institution lasted from 1995 to 2000.
From 2001 to present time, he is part of Veta la Palma technical staff, where he has developed a strong concern on the application of sustainability principles to different aspects of industry management. He is also perticularly interested in the quantification of natural capital, in terms of services for the ecosystem, that some production models such as Veta la Palma fish-farming one, are able to generate.
Medialdea has a long experience on applied scientific research and management, and has published numerous articles and other collaborations on applied ecology, effect of fauna on the design of natural reservations, water management, and aquaculture as a new outlook on regional sustainability.
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William R. More
Vice-President
Aquaculture Certification Council |
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Since 2003, William More has held the position of Certification Director of the Aquaculture Certification Council. He has 45 years experience in the Aquaculture industry; this experience ranges from Shrimp and fish farming, consulting, and operational management, to administration. He studied Fisheries Management at Texas A & M University, and currently resides in Crystal River, Florida.
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Dick Nyeko
Executive Secretary
Lake Victoria Fisheries Organization |
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Mr. Nyeko holds B.Sc & M.Sc (Fisheries) from Makerere University, Kampala Uganda. He has been working in Civil Service in Fisheries Management (1988-2008); as Commissioner for Fisheries Resources of Uganda and Head Sanitary Competent Authority (199-2008); and, Executive Secretary, Lake Victoria Fisheries Organization (2008 - present). The Lake Victoria Fisheries Organization (LVFO) is an intergovernmental organization established in 1994 to manage and develop the shared fisheries resources of Lake Victoria and is an autonomous institution of the East African Community (EAC).
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Iain Pollard
Senior Consultant and Lead Auditor
MRAG Americas, Inc. |
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Iain Pollard is a Senior Consultant and Lead Auditor at MRAG. He manages full-chain traceability verifications, conducts risk assessments for eliminating IUU, and conducts MSC chain of custody audits. He has provided traceability, risk assessment and sustainable sourcing advice to supermarkets, processors, fishing companies, farms, NGO's and national administrations across the USA, Europe, and Africa.
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Fraser Rieche
Special Projects / Sustainability
Calkins and Burke Ltd. |
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Fraser Rieche has been involved in the seafood and aquaculture industry for the past 23 years having worked in Europe, South America, across North America and Africa. Fraser is now located in Vancouver Canada where for the past 4 years he has been working for Calkins and Burke Ltd. Calkins and Burke is a leading trading company and importer that has been actively supplying all types of seafood products to Canadian and international retail and food service clients since 1923. One of the positions that is in Fraser’s mandate is to build implement and direct a “sustainability program” for the company.
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Ian Roberts
Communications Manager
Marine Harvest Canada (MHC) |
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Ian Roberts is a graduate of aquaculture and began working with Marine Harvest Canada (MHC) in 1992 in British Columbia, Canada. With seventeen years of production experience raising salmon, he has spent ten of those years working with the Kitasoo/Xai'xais First Nation in Klemtu, where company and Nation jointly produce and process farmed-raised salmon.
Recently, Ian has moved from production to a role as Communications Manager.
Residing in Campbell River, he is a member of the Campbell River Daybreak Rotary Club and is a director on the Campbell River Hospital Foundation board.
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Alan Risenhoover
Director
Office of Sustainable Fisheries |
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In 2006, Mr. Risenhoover began his service as the Director of the Office of Sustainable Fisheries in Silver Spring, Maryland. In this role, he is responsible for NOAA Fisheries Service headquarters activities relating to the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conversation and Management Act and other laws, and oversees more than 90 staff in a number of locations around the country. The Office oversees Atlantic highly migratory species (bluefin tuna, swordfish, billfish, shark) management, domestic fisheries re gulation coordination, fisheries policy development and implementation, Atlantic Coastal Act implementation, outreach and constituent services, and food safety risk analysis . Beginning his career with NOAA in 1989, he has held several key positions within the agency including Deputy Director within the Office of Sustainable Fisheries (2004-2006), Deputy Chief Financial Officer/Deputy Chief Administrative Officer (Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget, 1999 - 2004), Fisheries Team Lead for Legislative Affairs (1994 - 1999), and assignments within the Offices of Protected Resources and Habitat Conservation. He received his bachelor's degree in aquatic zoology from Colorado State University and a master's degree in fish and wildlife sciences from Texas A&M University.
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Dr. Jeffrey Silverstein
National Program Leader, Aquaculture
USDA-Agricultural Research Service |
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Dr. Jeffrey Silverstein is the National Program Leader for the US Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Research Service, Aquaculture National Program since October 2007. As National Program Leader, Silverstein has led development of the next five year action plan which outlines the research activities for the 2010 to 2014 period. He serves as co-chair of the Joint Subcommittee of Aquaculture task force on Science and Technology, and has been a leader of the USDA-NOAA Alternative Feeds for Aquaculture initiative since 2007. Silverstein first joined ARS in 1997, as a Research Geneticist in aquaculture. USDA-ARS is the intramural agricultural research arm of the USDA. The ARS Aquaculture program is represented by 61 scientists in 13 locations across the United States.
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Neil Anthony Sims, M.Sc.
Co-founder and President
Kona Blue Water Farms |
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Neil Anthony Sims is the Co-founder and President of Kona Blue Water Farms, LLC, and the Founding President of the Ocean Stewards Institute.
Kona Blue is the USA’s first integrated marine fish hatchery and open ocean mariculture operation, off Hawaii’s Kona Coast. The company is a leader in the expansion of the environmentally sound production of the ocean’s finest fish, producing up to 25,000 lbs per week of sashimi-grade Kona Kampachi® from their offshore deepwater site.
The Ocean Stewards is a trade association that advocates for rational, considered development of offshore mariculture in the Americas.
Neil has a B.Sc. in Marine Biology / Zoology (James Cook University, 1980) and an M.Sc. in Zoology (University of New South Wales, 1990). In the 1980’s, he established the Fisheries Research Division of the Cook Islands’ government, in the South Pacific.
Since 1993, he has been based in Kona, Hawaii, where he has led research projects in aquaculture development that have led to – among other things - the breakthrough hatchery technology for ‘difficult-to-rear’ marine fish. This in turn led to the founding of Kona Blue, and the expansion of open ocean mariculture in America.
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Grimur Valdimarsson
Director of the Fish Products and Industry Division
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) |
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Grimur Valdimarsson is the Director of the Fish Products and Industry Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), at the Rome headquarters, since 1997. The Division is one of three divisions of the Fisheries and Aquaculture Department of FAO. The Division is responsible for activities relating to fish production, utilization and trade, safety of products, appropriate technologies for capturing fish, monitoring of fishing vessels and safety of fishermen. Prior to joining FAO, he was Director of the Icelandic Fisheries Laboratories, a Government Institute dealing with all aspects of fish processing. Grimur Valdimarsson holds a B.Sc. in Biology from the University of Iceland (1973) and a Ph.D. in Marine Microbiology from the University of Strathclyde, Scotland (1977).
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David Valleau
Director of Imports/National Accounts
Lusamerica Foods, Inc |
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After graduating from university with a Hotel and Restaurant Management degree and working in seafood kitchens for five years, David was recruited to join a seafood company in the US Pacific Northwest. He has worked for wild harvest, aquaculture, importing, processing and distribution companies for 20 years in sales, marketing, purchasing and senior management positions. His current role includes implementing sustainability initiatives with national chain accounts for Lusamerica Foods, a seafood processing and distribution company based in California servicing customers in theWestern US.
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Thomas H. Williams, Ph.D.
Fisheries Ecology Division
Southwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA |
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Dr. Thomas Williams is a Research Fisheries Biologist with NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), Southwest Fisheries Science Center-Fisheries Ecology Division in Santa Cruz, California. Research at this facility is focused on Pacific coast groundfish and Pacific salmon. Groundfish under study include rockfishes, flatfishes, Pacific whiting, sablefish, and lingcod; salmon include coho slamon, Chinook salmon, and steelhead. Results of research conducted by the Southwest Fisheries Science Center are used by the Pacific Fishery Management Council to manage fisheries and by NMFS to manage threatened and endangered species. Fisheries Ecology Division scientists study causes of variability in abundance and health of fish populations, analyze ecological relations in marine communities, and study the economics of exploiting and protecting natural resources. They also assess the stocks of species targeted by various fisheries, and assist in evaluating potential impacts of human activities on threatened or endangered species.
Dr. Williams’ primary research interests include the ecology of Pacific salmon and trout and relations among marine, freshwater, and terrestrial communities; conservation biology and conservation genetics related to conservation of Pacific salmon and trout. Most recently he has been involved with the development of technical recovery plans for Federally-listed salmon and steelhead populations. He received his Ph.D. in Fisheries Science from Oregon State University.
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J. Miguel Medialdea, Quality & Environment Manager, Veta la Palma fish-farm, Pesquerías Isla Mayor, S.A.
Ian Roberts, Communications Manager, Marine Harvest Canada
Alan Risenhoover, Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service
Meredith Lopuch, Deputy Director - Sustainable Seafood Initiative, World Wildlife Fund
Nadia Bouffard, Director General, Fisheries Renewal, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada
Dick Nyeko, Executive Secretary, Lake Victoria Fisheries Organization
David Valleau, Director of Imports/National Accounts, Lusamerica Foods, Inc
Dr Moses Maurihungirire, Director of Resource Management, Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources, Namibia
Mark Helvey, Assistant Regional Administrator - Sustainable Fisheries Division (SFD), DOC NOAA Fisheries Service, Southwest Region
Dorothy Dankel, Researcher, Institute of Marine Research
Grimur Valdimarsson, Director, Fish Products and Industry Division (FIID) Fisheries and Aquaculture Department, Food And Agriculture Organization Of The United Nations (FAO)
Fraser Rieche, Special Projects/Sustainability, Calkins And Burke Ltd
Giovanni Comin, CEO, Central Coast Seafood
William More, Vice-President, Aquaculture Certification Council
Dr Paolo Bray, Director, Friend Of The Sea
Mike Crispino, Communications Manager, International Seafood Sustainability Foundation
Ernesto Godelman, Founder, Cedepesca, Argentina
Bill Carvalho, President, Wild Planet Foods
Mathias Ismail, Managing Director, OSO Delta Peche
Chuck Anderson, Former Vice President, Seafood Procurement, Ahold
Paul Holthus, Executive Director, World Ocean Council
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