A truckload of salmon and halibut steaks will leave Seattle on Friday en route to San Francisco/Marin Food Bank. This will represent almost 140,000 servings of seafood. This fish was caught in Jan/Feb. by fishermen in the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska and donated to SeaShare for domestic hunger relief. But it's not a simple process. Here is how SeaShare brings partners together for this model:

Fishermen in the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska donate headed and gutted fish to SeaShare that is stored in Dutch Harbor until there is enough to bring to Seattle for processing. Various cold storages in Dutch Harbor donate storage while the volume accumulates. Coastal Transportation donates transportation and brings the fish south to Seattle. SeaShare contracts for local trucking in Seattle and sends the fish to E&E Foods for processing. The fish is cut into steaks and packaged at a discounted rate. Frontier Packaging donated boxes for this particular job. The finished salmon and halibut steaks are then transported to San Francisco.

So, can you guess how many companies it takes to make this process work? For this particular job, SeaShare partnered with 26 companies and boats. That's a lot of coordination, but this model enables large volumes of seafood, more than any single company could donate, to reach food banks across the country.

Please watch the video below to see how these partnerships help our food banks.