February 20, 2015 — As hundreds of participants at the recent SeaWeb Seafood Summit gathered for the opening reception at the Hyatt Regency New Orleans, one Gulf of Mexico award winner joined five others and ten finalists as they waited to be honored for the work in promoting seafood sustainability during the previous year.
TJ Tate, the sustainability director for Gulf Wild, was presented with the Seafood Champion Award for Vision. She was recognized for her pioneering work that included video monitoring on commercial fishing boats, creating collaboration between scientists and fishermen, and marketing of bycatch to avoid waste.
The SeaWeb Seafood Summit hosted the Seafood Champion Awards Ceremony to recognize individuals and companies for outstanding leadership in promoting environmentally responsible seafood and ocean health. Winners were chosen from a group of sixteen finalists that represent the best of the best in sustainability from around the world.
First presented in 2006, the Seafood Champion Awards annually recognize individuals and companies for outstanding leadership in promoting environmentally responsible seafood. This year, for the first time, the Seafood Champion Awards honored excellence in four targeted categories: Leadership, Innovation, Vision and Advocacy.
Finalist hailed from five continents, and included Argentina, Canada, the United Kingdom, Indonesia, Japan, New Zealand, the Republic of the Maldives, Panama and the United States. They were selected from more than100 nominations from the fishing, aquaculture, seafood supply and distribution, retail, restaurant and food service sectors, as well as conservation and social non-profit organizations, academia and the media.
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