The Responsible Seafood Conference
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Innovative processes and tools — on the water and online — are speeding aquaculture’s evolution. Session 1 will explore how new technologies are making aquaculture more efficient, sustainable, profitable and humane. What does it take to bring new ideas and products to market? Join Responsible Seafood Advocate Editor James Wright in a discussion with investors and entrepreneurs about the many opportunities and challenges that aquaculture presents.

Guest hosts Carsten Krome of Hatch Blue and Amy Novogratz of Aqua-Spark join Responsible Seafood Advocate Editor James Wright for a 10-minute high-level discussion about transformational change in aquaculture, led by innovation and investment.

Tony Fadell is an active investor and entrepreneur whose 30-year-plus career includes a decade with Apple Computers, during which he headed the team that created the first 18 generations of the iPod and the first three generations of the iPhone. His current venture, Future Shape, is a global investment and advisory firm coaching engineers, scientists and startups working on foundational deep technology. Fadell, who also founded Nest, the company that pioneered the “Internet of Things,” will talk with Responsible Seafood Advocate Editor James Wright about bringing technology from the lab to our lives. Over the course of his career, Fadell has authored more than 300 patents.

Following Tony Fadell’s keynote address, guest hosts Carsten Krome and Amy Novogratz rejoin James Wright for a 15-minute high-level discussion about transformational change in aquaculture.

Some of the world’s leading minds in aquaculture technology pitch their innovations.

Some of the world’s leading minds in aquaculture technology pitch their innovations.

Use the question-and-answer chat feature to interact with speakers.

It’s well documented that COVID-19 has reshaped the seafood sourcing, marketing and consumption landscapes. At-home seafood consumption is flourishing, dining out is poised to bounce back as COVID-19 restrictions are lifted, and the supply-chain disruptions that muddled last year aren’t as frequent this year. But will these trends last? And is the relationship between buyers and suppliers shifting from a strictly transactional arrangement to a truly collaborative partnership? Find out.

Has seafood consumption changed permanently due to the pandemic? In his presentation, Matt Craze of Spheric Research reveals the results of an exclusive GSA-commissioned survey of around 30 retail and foodservice seafood buyers from around the globe. Featured in the presentation are interviews with key members of the seafood-sourcing community, including Megan Morikawa, global director of sustainability at Iberostar Group; Susan Tong, a seafood buyer at Ikea China; Kikuo Shomen, a seafood buyer at Metro Cash & Carry Japan; Guy Pizzuti, seafood category manager at Publix; and Red Lobster CEO Kim Axel Lopdrup. What he found may surprise you.

Best Aquaculture Practices’ Molly Jacques interviews key members of the retail and foodservice communities about today’s ever-changing seafood landscape.

Sponsored content and trivia.

Join Molly Jacques, Matt Craze and the other speakers for a live panel discussion with audience Q&A and polling.

At-home seafood consumption experienced tremendous growth during the pandemic. Marketing strategies have been adjusted and new products have been developed to meet shifting consumption behaviors. Be inspired by these COVID-19 seafood success stories from around the world while being entertained by cooking demonstrations highlighting simple seafood recipes from Asia, Europe and North America.

Seafood Nutrition Partnership President Linda Cornish shares the results of the “Eat Seafood America!” consumer campaign in the United States.

Join us for a live panel discussion on the effort to fund the U.S. National Seafood Council, which more than 60 organizations supported in a letter to Congress in May. This is the first time that representatives of the National Seafood Council Task Force will be speaking together publicly.

Sponsor videos and trivia.

Mike Berthet of Best Aquaculture Practices and nutritionist Jessica Miller show off their salmon-cooking skills.

Dr. Tan Hongxin, dean of Shanghai Ocean University’s College of Fisheries and Life Science and chief scientist at Dingdong Mai Cai, explains how China is meeting the burgeoning demand for home delivery of live seafood.

Nutritionist Kim Galeaz and Angelina Liu of Hainan Xiangtai Fishery Co. Ltd. show off their tilapia-cooking skills.

The results are in! Our guest chefs share their salmon and tilapia dishes.

GSA’s Steve Hart moderates a panel discussion on marketing strategies and new product development with Linda Cornish of Seafood Nutrition Partnership, Dr. Tan Hongxin or Shanghai Ocean University/Dingdong Mai Cai, Jemma McCowan of New Zealand King Salmon Co. and Tommy Sekiguchi of Mitsui & Co.

In Session 4, speakers will break down the supply chain into four key areas — fisheries, vessels, ports and processing plants — and examine each area for social risk, as risks vary from nutrition needs and access for livelihoods to worker safety, poor working conditions, poor recruitment and training, and modern slavery. Experts in each area will explain ways in which such risks may be not only mitigated for seafood buyers but actually rectified.

Sponsor videos and trivia.

The climate crisis is a defining issue of our time, and its effects are already looming with flooding in China, Germany, Belgium, Uganda and India, wildfires in California, Turkey and Siberia, and new warnings in the prestigious journal Nature that weakening Atlantic Ocean currents may lead to irreversible extreme cold in Europe and parts of North America. Governments are urgently responding. Just recently, the European Union pledged to become the first climate-neutral continent by 2050, while China is planning to launch the world’s largest emissions-trading program and U.S. legislators are calling for a carbon tariff on polluting countries. What can the aquaculture and fisheries industries do to mitigate the impacts of climate change? Find out by participating in the live stream of GOAL 2021 Virtual Event Session 5, “Feeling the Heat: What is Seafood’s Role in Mitigating the Impacts of Climate Change?”

Oyumaa de Jong, part of Rabobank’s Sustainable Debt Capital Markets team, will review impending changes to climate change policy and discuss options for green financing

Erik Lanssen, general manager of Selfa Arctic AS, will discuss electrification in fisheries as well as aquaculture. His Norwegian company builds hybrid fishing vessels. Lanssen’s mission is to reduce Norway’s diesel consumption by 80 million liters.

Richard Newton, research fellow at the University of Stirling, will discuss greenhouse gas emissions from feeds and feed ingredients. He’s chairing the Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) Vanguard standard on climate action.

Dave, Robb, SeaFurther Sustainability Program Lead for Cargill Animal Nutrition & Health, will review carbon emissions from different forms of aquaculture. He co-authored a recent peer-reviewed study that found that global aquaculture accounts for only 0.49 percent of anthropogenic GHG emissions, similar in magnitude to the emissions from sheep production.

David Hine, owner of Land & Water Management Pty. Ltd., will discuss carbon farming in Australia, where a carbon-farming program has been in place for about a decade. The aim of carbon farming is to increase the rate at which carbon is sequestered into soil and plant material, creating a net loss of carbon from the atmosphere.

GSA President and Founder George Chamberlain will moderate a panel discussion with the five presenters. The live panel discussion features audience question-and-answer and polling.

Iain Shone, director of market development-Europe for the Global Seafood Alliance, kicks off the session with his opening remarks.

Piers Hart, global lead for aquaculture for the World Wildlife Fund, sets the scene for the session by discussing the global food system’s impact on land and water use, biodiversity loss and climate change.

Following Piers Hart’s presentation, Aisla Jones of The Co-op in the United Kingdom and Gert le Roux of Woolworths South Africa join GSA’s Iain Shone to discuss the global food system and efforts to reduce the global seafood industry’s carbon footprint, with a focus on aquafeeds.

Rowan Yearsley of Marifeed joins Gert le Roux of Woolworths South Africa for an on-the-ground account of latest developments in abalone feeds and feeding techniques.

In this series of presentations, representatives of the feed-manufacturing and feed-ingredients sectors provides updates on how their respective sector is contributing to the reduction of global seafood industry’s carbon footprint. Presenters include Jorge Díaz of Skretting (feed manufacturing), Clément Ray (insect meal), Chris Haacke of Corbion (microalgae) and Enno Fricke and Vanessa Fuchs of the Alfred Wegener Institute (R&D and byproducts).

Libby Woodhatch of MarinTrust and James Fox Davies of Three-Sixty Aquaculture and chair of the Aquaculture Leadership Group for England meet with GSA’s Iain Shone on the seafront at Weymouth in the UK to close out the session with a discussion on what it will really take to meet the aquafeeds sustainability challenge.

GOAL 2021 Virtual Event Session 7, “Green Financing as a Tool for Sustainable Seafood Development,” will provide a status report on green debt financing in the salmon-farming sector, which has experienced a 17-fold increase in green bonds and loans in the past two years. This session will also provide a banker’s view of the sustainable bond market for seafood. Following four presentations is a live panel discussion featuring audience Q&A.

Global Seafood Alliance CEO Wally Stevens kicks off the eighth and final GOAL 2021 virtual event with a preview of what’s to come.

Árni Mathiesen — senior advisor at the Iceland Ocean Cluster, former Assistant Director-General of the UN Food & Agriculture Organization’s Fisheries & Aquaculture Department and former Minister of Fisheries for Iceland — will give the keynote address on the Blue Economy. Mathiesen is also a GSA board member.

Árni Mathiesen will follow his presentation with a question-and-answer discussion with GSA President and Founder George Chamberlain.

Janjoris van Diepen of Blonk Consultants in the Netherlands will give a presentation titled, “Gateway to Sustainability: U.S. Soy’s Promise of Blue Skies.” A live question-and-answer discussion with the audience will follow the presentation.

Travis Larkin, president and owner of The Seafood Exchange, will kick off the session by introducing the participants of the 15th annual Global Aquaculture Production Survey & Analysis.

For the 15th consecutive year, GSA will present the results of its exclusive annual aquaculture production survey for shrimp. For the second consecutive year, GSA partnered with Rabobank to deliver the forecast and analysis. Rabobank Senior Analyst Gorjan Nikolik will present. Also contributing to the presentation is Kontali Analyse and GSA’s Darryl Jory.

For the 15th consecutive year, the Global Seafood Alliance will present the results of its exclusive annual aquaculture production survey for finfish, including salmon, trout, tilapia, pangasius, sea bream and sea bass, cod and carp. For the second consecutive year, GSA partnered with Rabobank and to deliver the forecast and analysis. Rabobank Senior Analyst Gorjan Nikolik will present. Also contributing to the presentation is Kontali Analyse and GSA’s Darryl Jory.

Gorjan Nikolik of Rabobank joins Ragnar Nystøyl of Kontali Analyse and Jim Anderson of the University of Florida, both longtime contributors to GSA’s annual aquaculture production surveys, for a question-and-answer panel discussion moderated by Travis Larkin of The Seafood Exchange. The audience will have the opportunity to ask questions using the Q&A feature.

Responsible Seafood Advocate Editor James Wright will kick off the session by introducing the three finalists of the ninth annual Global Aquaculture Innovation Award, which garnered 39 applicants from 24 countries this year, as well as a history of the competition.

Nucleic Sensing Systems of Minnesota, USA, is among the three finalists of the 2021 Global Aquaculture Innovation Award for its “Tracker,” which uses digital droplet PCR to detect biological issues in aquaculture environments, improving productivity. CEO Ed Rudberg will be presenting. Read the Oct. 18 Responsible Seafood Advocate article on Nucleic Sensing Systems’ innovation.

Ace Aquatec is among the three finalists of the 2021 Global Aquaculture Innovation Award for its Acoustic Startle Response (ASR) and Electric Startle Response (ESR), which, working together, is a targeted predator deterrent that does no harm to the marine mammals that prey on fish farms. CEO Nathan Pyne-Carter will be presenting. This is Ace Aquatec’s second nomination in three years; the Scotland-based company won the 2019 Global Aquaculture Innovation Award. Read the Oct. 25 Responsible Seafood Advocate article on Ace Aquatec’s innovation.

FlipFarm, a transformational, semi-automated oyster-growing system from New Zealand, is among the three finalists of the 2021 Global Aquaculture Innovation Award. Aaron Pannell, owner of Marlborough Oysters in New Zealand, will be presenting. Read the Nov. 1 Responsible Seafood Advocate article on FlipFarm.

Following the 10-minute “pitches,” the three finalists will join James Wright and Pablo Berner, aquaculture lead-Chile for Nuseed, one of the finalists of the 2020 Global Aquaculture Innovation Award, for a question-and-answer discussion that will conclude with an audience vote to determine the winner of the 2021 Global Aquaculture Innovation award.

James Lapeyre, general manager of Laitram Machinery, and Chuck Ledet, project manager for Laitram’s SMART Sorters, will give the presentation “The Future of Shrimp Grading.”

GSA’s Steven Hedlund will kick off the session by introducing the speakers, who will explain the art of setting seafood sustainability goals.

Vidar Gundersen, group sustainability director for BioMar, a leading aquafeed manufacturer based in Denmark, will summarize the company’s Sustainability Report 2020 and how its leadership team approached setting its goals and aligning them with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Vidar Gundersen and Tordis Poulsen, group sustainability director for Bakkafrost, the leading producer of farmed salmon from the Faroe Islands, and a key contributor to the company’s Healthy Living Sustainability Report 2020, joins GSA’s Steven Hedlund for a question-and-answer discussion on the art of setting seafood sustainability goals.

Ensuring fish welfare and sustainability is a key goal for the aquaculture industry. Merck Animal Health is supporting this goal through advanced technology solutions. Join us for this brief session to learn about the future of vision technology, and how we can benefit from machine learning to transform farming practices today.

The eighth and final GOAL 2021 virtual event will conclude with the GSA Stakeholder Update, with brief presentations on the Best Aquaculture Practices and Best Seafood Practices certification programs as well as GSA’s education and advocacy work from CEO Wally Stevens; Molly Jacques, VP of market development operations; Maddie Cassidy, membership marketing manager; Devan Meserve, VP of marketing and communications; and COO Brian Perkins.