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Part 2: Enforcing Regulations Snapchat, Instagram, remote-controlled drones. Technology is speeding along faster than we can install the latest iPhone update. And with so much time, energy, and money pouring into tech, we’re excited to see new innovations that can help our oceans as well. In part 2 of our 4-part series on how technology can help save the seas (with a little help), we turn our attention to innovations in regulation and enforcement. It might not sound exciting, but these companies are using…

Snapchat, instagram, remote-controlled drones. Technology is speeding along faster than we can install the latest iPhone update. And with so much time, energy, and money pouring into tech, we’re excited to see new innovations that can help our oceans as well. Historically, technology applied to oceans has driven decline. Now there’s a new opportunity for technology to take a role in responsible management: Tech-savvy environmentalists and entrepreneurs are harnessing the power of technology to help enforce regulations, to trace and track fish, to identify…

How a lifelong love of fishing became a mission to save the ocean by eating its inhabitants. On a recent Thursday night in San Francisco, a group of guests gathered at Fine & Rare for a dinner to celebrate “little” fish. This Seafood Stories dinner featured chef Douglas Bernstein, executive chef at Sausalito, California’s Fish, a restaurant dedicated to sustainable seafood and storytelling. Over Fort Bragg Sea Urchin, San Francisco Bay Anchovies, and Oregon Butter Clam Ceviche, guests learned the importance of eating lower on the food…

June 8, 2016 -- There’s a new buzzword in the sustainable seafood movement: traceability. Like “sustainability,” “traceability” can mean different things to different people. To advance progress for greater seafood traceability, a shared understanding of traceability concepts and technology is needed. To help move the conversation forward, Future of Fish, with the assistance of FishWise, and the Global Food Traceability Center (GFTC) is pleased to announce a brand new resource, the Traceability 101 Toolkit. End-to-end traceability requires the coordinated effort of NGOs and their industry…

Happy World Oceans Day! As you may have heard, today is a big day for ocean lovers, conservationists, and seafood people everywhere. Check out highlights from today including some tips, facts, and recipes for preparing sustainable seafood yourself. Tweets from the sea. #sexfriendlyseafood Marah Hardt, our Director of Research and author of Sex in the Sea hosted a twitter chat alongside Fish Revolution’s Crystal Sanders and Future of Fish. We heard from a whole array of guests including Conservation International Hawai’i, Steve Vilnit, Fine…

At Future of Fish, we’re focused on the ocean every day. That’s why we’re especially excited for World Oceans Day on June 8—it’s a chance to celebrate the sea that nourishes us, and to talk about the environmental and industrial challenges that our oceans face. We’ll be using World Oceans Day (actually, World Oceans Week) as an opportunity to highlight some of our ongoing initiatives and host a few sea-worthy activities. Take a look at what we’ve got in store: Sex-Friendly Seafood Twitter Chat…

June 1, 2016 -- Future of Fish, a nonprofit organization that works within the seafood supply chain to promote traceability and transparency, today announced that Charles Steinback, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Point 97, will be joining Future of Fish as Director of their Traceability Technology Pod. Charles is a leader and innovator whose passion for people and their relationship with the ocean has informed his career path. “For me it’s always been about the people who depend on the ocean,” he said. “I’ve…

How adding data directly to packaging builds trust for an emerging storied seafood brand. After our Seattle co-design workshop, we caught in with participant Norah Eddy, co-founder of Salty Girl Seafood Company. Norah brought us up to speed on what's new for Salty Girl Seafood, and we chatted about the importance of traceability and storied fish. When Salty Girl Seafood started selling sustainable seafood to restaurants in 2014, they had a feeling that their product would be valuable to chefs. They were right. But…

When we left off, our teams had just finished presenting ideas, building prototypes, and acting out a version of the world in which their ideas come to life. But it still felt hypothetical. The re-convening—as designed by our for-profit partner Flip Labs is when we nail down real, actionable next steps. It’s here that we begin to strategize about funding, and start the critical transition from “teams” to “Pods”. Let’s dive in. Brainstorming After meet and greets, and brief context-setting for newcomers, it’s time to dive…

Supply chains are messy. They’re made up of a whole jumble of people and places, each with their own sets of priorities, motivations, and needs. And they’re always changing. From the outside, it can be difficult to decipher what’s going on. In a supply chain like seafood, that murkiness means it’s often impossible to follow a fish from ocean to plate. That’s why we don’t try to impact supply chains from the outside. When planning a co-design workshop we aim to convene open-minded players…

How do oysters reproduce? Answers to this and other salty questions of the sea. Last week in San Francisco seafood lovers from around the city gathered at Fine & Rare for the very first night of Seafood Stories, a dinner series focused on sharing local, sustainable seafood and learning how to be better stewards to our oceans. The dinners, co-hosted by Fish Revolution and Fine & Rare, are planned monthly in San Francisco* and feature local seafood, guest speakers, and mouth-watering menus. What better way than to…

What is Industry Lab? Why are context and the people in the room so important for the goals we aim to achieve? Well, we think “context”—the perfect, concise distillation of the challenge under discussion—is the foundation for lively and candid discussion. And if you invite the right, diverse group of people to show up, an event becomes organically dynamic. Frankly, there are too many boring conferences stuffed full of four-speaker lecture panels and not enough events that energize and open new paths to change. The…