The Role SeaShare Plays in Food Waste Recovery

Posted on November 16, 2021

The food waste recovery movement, organized by ReFED, has been hard at work to not just calculate the problem at hand, but to also find ways to reduce food waste. SeaShare is a member of the ReFED Insights Engine, an online data center designed to serve as the next generation of data, insights, and guidance on U.S. food waste. This data is meant to lay the foundation for action to reduce food waste and loss in the United States by 50% by 2030, which is one of the targets of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals for nations worldwide. 

Yukon Relief Hits 196,000 Servings

Posted on September 22, 2021

An additional 24,000 pounds (96,000 servings) of frozen salmon is headed to villages on the Yukon, thanks to the generosity of Alaska processors, transportation companies and U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak. This is the second shipment to the Yukon: Last month Bristol Bay seafood processors collected 25,000 pounds of salmon for communities on the Yukon, which faced a winter without salmon due to the closure of subsistence fisheries. 

Supply Woes: Help Needed!

Posted on August 25, 2021

With the delta variant spreading across the country, food bank traffic still continues at record high levels. This time last year much of the seafood destined for the foodservice market was re-routed into retail and food bank channels instead. Restaurant openings this year provided much relief to both suppliers and consumers, however the volume of protein to food banks has dwindled. 

Seafood Industry Rallies for Yukon Relief

Posted on July 26, 2021

When it comes to feeding hungry people, the general rule of thumb is you do what you need to do to get the job done. And when it comes to feeding those in need in Alaska, it takes an entire industry, from fishermen to processors to transportation, to get the job done.

No Time to Apply the Brakes

Posted on May 19, 2021

The pandemic panic may be easing as more Americans get vaccinated and mask mandates start to go away, but this doesn’t mean there are fewer hungry people. Feeding America projects that 42 million people (1 in 8), including 13 million children (1 in 6) may experience food insecurity this year. Those who have been most impacted by the pandemic were food insecure or at risk of food insecurity before COVID-19 and are facing greater hardship since the pandemic began. 

E&E Foods Named 2020 Donor of the Year

Posted on April 13, 2021

April 13, 2021

Pandemic Projects Bolster Food Bank Seafood Supply

Posted on March 31, 2021

SeaShare sent four truckloads (144,000 pounds!) of seafood from Channel Fish Processing in Boston to food banks in Louisiana, Michigan, and New York in the end of March. This is one of several large projects we’ve pursued to generate additional protein for food banks across the country during the pandemic.

American Seafoods Exec joins SeaShare Board

Posted on February 03, 2021

Bainbridge Island, WA —SeaShare is pleased to announce that Rasmus Soerensen recently joined its Board of Directors. Soerensen is Executive VP of Global Sales and Marketing at American Seafoods Company LLC, where he has worked since February 2004. He is responsible for production planning, worldwide disposition of products, and market strategy development. 

Seafood donations reach 8 million servings in 2020

Posted on January 21, 2021

January 21, 2021

A Time for Perspective: We Give #Thanks

Posted on November 24, 2020

This has been an unprecedented year. The pandemic has taken a drastic toll on our American way of life. But it’s also given us a new perspective to recognize the many things we have to be thankful for.     

#NationalSeafoodMonth is here!

Posted on October 13, 2020

Many of our supporters are in the seafood industry, and therefore know October is #NationalSeafoodMonth. This is the time when the industry gets to say, loud and proud, to #EatSeafoodAmerica! It’s delicious, creates jobs, and it’s GOOD For You!!

Pandemic Generosity Humbling

Posted on September 02, 2020

Seafood is an expensive protein for foodbanks to purchase, and the logistics of sourcing products from remote areas such as Alaska make getting this nutritious protein to those in need even more difficult. This has been SeaShare’s niche for over 25 years – sourcing and dealing with the logistics of getting seafood into Feeding America food banks. 

SeaShare and the Southeast Alaska Food Bank: Getting Seafood to Neighbors in Need

Posted on June 02, 2020

Thanks to Trident Seafoods, SeaShare has just sent 14,681 pounds of seafood to the Southeast Alaska Food Bank in Juneau. This seafood was delivereid to the refurbished freezer container that SeaShare installed for the SE Alaska Food Bank in 2019, greatly increasing the food bank's ability to store frozen food for local distribution. 

SeaShare Receives ReFED COVID-19 Food Waste Solutions Fund Grant

Posted on May 15, 2020

SeaShare is excited to announce that we have received one of the very first ReFED COVID-19 Food Waste Solutions grants. This grant is being used to urgently send 750,000 seafood to food banks and feeding centers across the country. “COVID-19 has disrupted the regular flow of the food supply chain, making it difficult to get fresh, healthy food to the people who need it most and increasing the amount of food insecurity,” said Alexandria Coari, Capital and Innovation Director at ReFED, a national nonprofit working to advance solutions to reduce the amount of food waste. “The work of organizations like SeaShare is urgent, and we’re excited to get them the critical support they need from the ReFED COVID-19 Food Waste Solutions Fund.”

E&E Foods Gives Big for Alaska

Posted on April 09, 2020

E&E Foods has just generously donated 110,000 pounds of nutritious wild Alaska smelt for food banks, and SeaShare helped coordinate the first delivery for the Food Bank of Alaska - 30,000 pounds (120,000 servings) - with three more similarly sized donations scheduled to help address the growing needs in communities hit by the COVID-19 virus.

SeaShare Partners with US Wild Alaska Pollock Producers to Donate Two Million Servings of High Protein Seafood to Food Banks in 12 States

Posted on March 17, 2020

SeaShare partners with Feeding America’s national network of food banks to donate two million servings of high-protein seafood to Americans who struggle with hunger in these uncertain times.

SeaShare in Alaska - A Map of Seafood Distributions in 2019

Posted on January 08, 2020

This map shows all of the locations in Alaska where SeaShare has distributed seafood. Orange locations are places where SeaShare directly distributes to food banks/community groups. Blue locations receive our seafood from distribution partners. You can view an interactive version of this map at: https://drive.google.com/open?...

SeaShare is Excited to Announce that Chris Barrows, President of the Pacific Seafood Processors Association, will join our Board of Directors

Posted on November 26, 2019

Chris Barrows, President of Pacific Seafood Processors Association (PSPA), is joining SeaShare's Board of Directors in January 2020. 

​Ever wondered how SeaShare gets seafood from Alaska to a food bank near you? Here's the one minute version of our story.

Posted on November 22, 2019

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SeaShare and the General Mills Foundation @ ReFED Summit in San Francisco

Posted on October 31, 2019

We were delighted to see our partner in the fight against hunger - the General Mills Foundation's Nicola Dixon - at the ReFED food waste summit in San Francisco this week! General Mills is taking the lead on innovative food recovery programs in North America, and we are happy to be a part of this important work.