9th Annual Seafood Summit
9th Annual Seafood Summit: Responsibility without Borders?
The Westin Bayshore, Vancouver, Canada
31 January - 2 February 2011
Seafood Summit brings together global representatives from the seafood industry and conservation community for in-depth discussions, presentations and networking with the goal of making the seafood marketplace environmentally, socially and economically sustainable.
Yvon Chouinard Announced as Keynote Speaker of Seafood Summit 2011!
Yvon Chouinard is founder and owner of Patagonia, Inc., based in Ventura, California. He began in business by designing, manufacturing, and distributing rock-climbing equipment in the late 1950's. His tinkering led to an improved ice axe that facilitated the French ice climbing technique and is the basis for modern ice axe design. In 1964 he produced his first mail order catalog, a one page mimeographed sheet, containing advice not to expect fast delivery during climbing season. Business grew slowly until 1972 when Yvon added rugby shirts to his catalog and his clothing business took off.
In the late 1980's, Patagonia's success was such that Yvon considered early retirement. In some ways he would have preferred to disappear into the South Pacific with his fly rod and surfboard. However, he decided to continue directing Patagonia's course, in part to use the company to inspire and implement solutions to the environmental crisis. As part of this goal, Patagonia instituted an Earth Tax, pledging 1% of sales to the preservation and restoration of the natural environment. In 2001, Yvon, along with Craig Mathews, owner of West Yellowstone's Blue Ribbon Flies, started One Percent For The Planet, an alliance of businesses that contribute at least 1 percent of their net annual sales to groups on a list of researched and approved environmental organizations.
Yvon spends much of his time in the outdoors and serving on the boards of numerous environmental groups. "I work every day of my life. My job is to be the ‘outside' man, studying lifestyles around the world, coming up with ideas for new products, new market trends, seeing that Patagonia stays relevant in a rapidly changing world."
Confirmed Session Titles
- Between the Deadline and the Deep Blue Sea: Journalists Talk about Reporting on the Sustainable Seafood Movement
- Community Supported Fisheries: Broadening the Scope of Traditional Fisheries Management
- Control Documents as a Tool for the Supply Chain to Address Poor Compliance in Fisheries
- Creating a Healthy and Sustainable Seafood Supply System
- Delivering Sustainability in One of the World's Most Technically Powerful Fisheries
- Facing the Future for Fish Meal and Fish Oil
- Fair Trade Social Certification and Community Empowerment
- Financing Change in Fisheries: Building Partnerships for Strategic Investment
- Focus on Asia
- From Consumer Confusion to Confidence: The Roles of Producers, Businesses, Governments and Others in Creating Clear Choices for Sustainable Seafood
- Further Down the Line: Creating Sustainable Seafood Markets in Developing Nations
- Gatekeepers to Cuisine Consciousness: Chefs Explore Their Influence on and Responsibility to Sustainability
- How Far Can and Should the Sustainable Seafood Movement Go in Improving Fisheries Worldwide?
- How the Seafood Industry Can Combat Ocean Acidification
- Is Environmental Sustainability Enough? Addressing the Social, Economic and Community Needs of Fisheries and Their Participants
- Life Cycle Assessment for Farmed and Wild Seafood
- Linking Sustainable Seafood with Marine Spatial Planning
- Responsibility without Borders: The Industry's Role in Conserving Bluefin
- Role of Aquariums in Impacting Consumer Behavior
- Salmon's Just the Tip of the Iceberg: Using New Science Tools to Assess and Shift the Current Trajectory of Marine Aquaculture
- Succession Planning - Exploring International Approaches to Embed Sustainability on the Demand Side
- Sustainability and Global Seafood
- Sustainable Impacts, Sustainable Business - Reality and Vision
- The Coral Triangle Initiative: Coral Reefs, Fisheries and Food Security
- The Next Generation of Salmon farming - Exploring the Business of Land-Based Closed Containment Aquaculture