A Surprising Call Came in Yesterday I took a call yesterday that surprised me. It was from a small food bank we’ve worked with many times and the caller asked if I thought we could get them some fish. When I asked when she needed it, she said, “As soon as possible,” and when I asked how much, she said “As much as you can give. Our freezers are empty, and we haven’t had a meat donation in a while.”
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Building SeaShare, Fish by Fish As non-profits across the nation face challenges and changes in their funding streams, many of our supporters have asked us how the changing dynamics affect SeaShare. It’s not a simple answer. While we didn’t have federal funding to lose, increased pressure on other grants we’ve regularly received has led to smaller awards or no funding. This troubles us, but we’re also seeing more interest in SeaShare's mission. Seafood donations are up, and our amazing partners have showed up to help us put the FUN in fundraising!
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While 2025 has started with a BANG we wanted to take a moment and look at the amazing numbers we achieved last year — all with YOUR help!
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Trident's Bundrant Challenges Industry, "Come take (the award) from me!"
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The holiday decorations are packed back away, year-end fundraising campaigns are completed, and goals for 2025 have been finalized. However, we can’t start the new year without saying a huge THANK YOU to our new partners in 2024:
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It’s been an incredible year at SeaShare! This spring we received funding from the State of Alaska to purchase Alaska seafood, as well as freezers, for food banks and feeding centers in the 49th State. We officially launched the program and the first 42,000 pounds went out to four Alaska communities, with another round on the way to another four towns and villages in early November.
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October marks National Seafood Month, a time when the industry gets to show the myriad ways that seafood benefits Americans. As NOAA Fisheries says, “seafood is good for you, good for the economy and good for the planet!”
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Jim Harmon, retired Executive Director of SeaShare, was awarded the Top Hand Award at the Genuine Alaska Pollock Producers annual meeting in Seattle last week. The Award recognizes a person in the Alaska pollock industry who gives above and beyond to the pollock industry and the seafood industry as a whole.
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SeaShare was awarded a state of Alaska Legislative Grant in FY 2025 to fund "Seafood Food Security and Processing Sector Resiliency Project."Check back here for updated information on the project.
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For the fourth year in a row, Alaska seafood harvesters, processors, and transportation companies have come to the aid of communities in the Yukon-Kuskokwim region after salmon fishing was suspended. SeaShare pitched in to coordinate the 28,000 pounds of donated fish, which is being distributed at zero cost to the receiving communities.
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The moment he’s been planning for has arrived: Jim’s retirement!
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SeaShare is pleased to announce that Gerrie Thomas, Vice President of Membership and Training for the National Fisheries Institute (NFI), was recently elected to the SeaShare Board of Directors.
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Did you know that 5% of the U.S. population identifies as a pescatarian? Pure and simple, these consumers are vegetarians who also eat seafood. The term pescatarian was coined in the early 1990s and is a combination of the Italian word for fish, “pesce,” and the word “vegetarian.” Vegetarians typically need to supplement with vitamins and minerals, however pescatarians benefit from a diet full of seafood that contain omega-3 fatty acids, magnesium, selenium, Vitamin D and more.
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This month we’re working on a generous donation of four truckloads of canned salmon from Silver Bay Seafoods! The company is an integrated processor of frozen and canned salmon, herring, whitefish and squid for domestic and export markets. The predominantly fishermen-owned, Alaskan company, with corporate offices in Sitka, Alaska, will operate 12 processing facilities throughout Alaska and the West Coast in 2024.
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This year’s Seafood Expo North America was busy for SeaShare and our partners. We were pleased to present Top Donor awards to Trident Seafoods and OBI Seafoods. Trident has donated more than 30 million servings of seafood to SeaShare in the past year, and OBI has donated 20 million servings.
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SeaShare is pleased to announce that Analise Gonzales, Director of Specialty Brands at Trident Seafoods Corp., was recently elected to the SeaShare Board of Directors.
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January 8, 2024
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It’s the time of year for reflection, and we have a lot to reflect on. The year-end holidays are when families want to celebrate, but those facing food insecurity and/or living in shelters often can’t afford to celebrate, let alone buy seafood.
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Fill in the blank: October is ________
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SeaShare is pleased to announce that Rasmus Soerensen was elected President of the Board of Directors and Thomas Zaffiro of Channel Fish Processing has joined the board.
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