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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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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Villages in the Yukon-Kuskokwim region are receiving 60,000 pounds of much-needed Alaska salmon from processors in Kodiak and Bristol Bay, thanks to the coordination from SeaShare. This is the third year subsistence fishing on the river has been suspended and the seafood industry has donated fish for SeaShare to distribute, at zero cost to the recipients.
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While Americans are trying to find a cool place for vacation this summer, the bears in Alaska are working hard to prep for hibernation. The brown bears in Katmai National Park are parked at Brooks Falls, where the typical bear eats up to 40 salmon per day to prepare for the long winter’s hibernation.
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Food bank demand for seafood has been keeping us busy! We recently sent truckloads of pollock portions, and salmon and halibut steaks to:
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We recently launched a new partnership with King Crab Legs Co. and Shopping Gives. This new program gives online retail customers the ability to support SeaShare with a donation during the checkout process.
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We are sad to share that SeaShare Board President William Orr passed away earlier this month after a long illness.
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