Rancho Dominguez, CA,  July 28 , 2014  --  Sea Pact, a coalition of seafood industry leaders, announces their third Request for Grant Proposals.  Sea Pact continues to advance sustainable fisheries and aquaculture practices through a grant process that awards funds to projects most aligned with their goals; Fishery and Aquaculture Improvement Projects, habitat restoration efforts, scientific research and other like-minded efforts.  Responses are due by August 25, 2014. Sea Pact will announce the grant recipients in October. 

To apply for funding, organizations are asked to fill out the RFP document available on the Sea Pact website: www.seapact.org/projects.html. 

 

“We’ve learned so much from the prior two rounds and are excited to see what innovative projects this new request will connect us with,” said Logan Kock, Vice President of Strategic Purchasing & Responsible Sourcing at Santa Monica Seafood and Chair of the Sea Pact Advisory Committee.  “Even if we don’t award a project funding, submitting it still gets it in front of an influential group of decision makers from various sectors.” 

 

About Sea Pact: Albion Fisheries, Fortune Fish & Gourmet, Ipswich Shellfish Group, Santa Monica Seafood, Seacore Seafood and Seattle Fish Co. are the founding members of Sea Pact and share an active progressive approach to their sustainability commitments.  In addition to the founding members, the group includes Stavis Seafood, JJ McDonnell and A.C. Covert.  Sea Pact works with New Venture Fund and receives sustainability counsel from non-profit organizations FishWise and Sustainable Fisheries Partnership (SFP). Sea Pact is a project under New Venture Funds 501c3 non-profit status.

 

To learn more about Sea Pact, visit their website www.seapact.org.