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PASSIONFISH SPONSORS ADVENTUROUS FORUM
ABOUT SEAFOOD SUSTAINABILITY:
SENSIBLE DIALOGUE MARKS NEW TERRITORY FOR THIS SENSITIVE
ISSUE
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SEPTEMBER 25 EVENT IN SAN DIEGO
http://www.passionfish.org
Passionfish NEWS RELEASE: For Immediate Release
Passionfish
SPONSORS ADVENTUROUS FORUM ABOUT SEAFOOD SUSTAINABILITY:
SENSIBLE DIALOGUE MARKS NEW TERRITORY FOR THIS SENSITIVE ISSUE
GET IN AT THE BEGINNING OF "SUSTAINABLE SAN DIEGO":
AN AUDACIOUS IDEA, AN AMAZING CITY, A SERIOUS CAUSE
September 15, 2003 — San Diego, CA. Our oceans’ bounty
isn’t what it used to be. What it will be is determined by what we buy and sell
today. Sustainable seafood isn’t just a slogan — it’s a balance between
commerce and conservation, between landlubbers and sea lovers. Discover where
you fit. Passionfish
will convene a spirited and evocative forum on the contentious issues of marine
fisheries and seafood consumption in San Diego on Thursday, September 25, 2003.
Come learn, laugh, and leave inspired.
The Passionfish
forum will engage a broad spectrum of experts from across the country representing
seafood and restaurant businesses, conservation, philanthropy, media,
government, aquaculture, fishing, and academia. These diverse stakeholders
share the one goal of fisheries sustainability although their views often
diverge on the means of achieving it.
The urgency of multiple sectors working cooperatively cannot be understated.
All agree that a crisis exists in our ocean and that action must be taken now.
Who should act and what should be done, however, depends on whom you ask. It’s
a global issue with goliath dimensions. Between the titans exists Passionfish.
We get the experts talking to one another and to affected communities. In San
Diego we’re in search of common ground for collaborative problem solving.
The two-and-a-half hour moderated forum will explore three distinct approaches
to tackling fisheries and seafood sustainability: environmental stewardship,
fishing industry leadership, and market-based resource management. While an
afternoon is inadequate to solve the problems, this simplified framework offers
transformative insights into the issues, the beliefs of others, and one’s own
convictions. Our forum peels back superficial disagreement. What are revealed
are bedrock core values. With a solid understanding of what we each treasure there
is hope for saving what we all love. San Diego is a community that is
geographically, economically, philosophically, and internationally poised to
seize this leadership role.
Moderating the panel will be author Bradford Matsen. Matsen is an authority on
fisheries issues, a past editor of National Fisherman, and a renowned author
and photographer. "Everything we know about the ocean tells us that our
relationship with it is fragile and in some cases toxic," Matsen says.
"The pressure of almost six billion humans on the sea and its creatures is
a phenomenon that has never been experienced before, and it calls for the
utmost in creativity and awareness to kindle hope for a benevolent future. In
its San Diego forum on sustainability, Passionfish is bringing together
a group of people who are simply not willing to ignore the call for
collaborative action. I can’t wait to spend the afternoon with them."
"In San Diego, this trend-setting collaboration will draw together
restaurateurs, wholesalers, tourism officials, elected officials, and
advertising firms in an ambitious campaign we’ve named "Sustainable San
Diego," says Passionfish Executive Director
and Co-founder Carl Rebstock. "Our aim is for America’s Finest City to be
the first of a string of pearls that threads its way up the West Coast of North
America. The courses of action this community’s businesses choose to undertake
will be based on sound information, will leverage the market responsibly, and
will provide an international model for public-private partnership."
"Most people feel removed from this debate although it affects an
important and beloved food source," says Patti Parisi, Passionfish
Co-founder. "And those that are involved are often engaged in heated
battles about tactics. In short, businesses are passionate about profit, and
environmentalists are passionate about conservation. We believe that, with the
right approach, these passions can be reconciled and directed into a powerful
force for change."
And, says Passionfish
Co-founder Andrew Ryland Spurgin, "We founded Passionfish because no
one else was doing this. People who agreed with each other were talking among
themselves. Meanwhile, it was business as usual for everyone else who were
either unaware, on a soapbox, or alienated. Respecting various stakeholders and
bringing them together in an educational dialogue is the answer. Providing
awareness and building relationships is the first step."
The Passionfish
panel discussion is part of the Oceans 2003 Marine Technology and Ocean
Conference in San Diego. The five-day conference is being billed as the largest
"Oceans" conference ever.
The forum is co-sponsored by Scripps Institution of Oceanography and coincides
with its Centennial.
The Passionfish
forum will be held Thursday, September 25, 1:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. in Pacific
Salons 2 & 3 at the Town and Country Resort & Conference Center, 500
Hotel Circle North, San Diego, in Mission Valley. Admission is free and open to
the public. Look for signs directing you to the forum.
This can’t-miss event will be like
nothing you’ve ever experienced.
Panelists:
John Filose, Vice President, Ocean Garden Products, Inc.
Bernard Guillas, Executive Chef, The Marine Room
Jeremy Jackson, Ph.D., Professor, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
A. Samuel King, President & CEO, King’s Seafood
John LaGrange, fisherman and President, American Fishermen’s Research
Foundation
Dick Murphy, Mayor, City of San Diego (invited)
Dierk Peters, Ph.D., Director, Sustainability Project, Unilever
Walter Pereyra, Ph.D., Chairman, Arctic Storm Management Group, Inc.
Michael Sutton, Director, Ocean Conservation Program, David & Lucile
Packard Foundation
Linda Sheehan, Director, Pacific Regional Office, The Ocean Conservancy
Christopher Speed, N.D., Manager, Food and Nutrition Strategies, Oldways
Preservation Trust
Brad Warren, Editor, Pacific Fishing Magazine
Moderator:
Bradford Matsen, Author of books and films on marine science, fisheries, and
seafood
Passionfish
is for people passionate about the ocean, fishing, and seafood! We are a
nonprofit public education project actively promoting sustainable wild
fisheries and aquaculture. Founded in 2000, Passionfish has developed an
innovative approach for addressing seafood and fisheries sustainability: forums
that reveal common ground amid contention, celebrations of seafood, broadcasts
that build awareness, and a unique book series aimed at inspiring consumers and
students about ocean and seafood sustainability. Match your passion with cash
-- please support Passionfish. Visit us at
http://www.passionfish.org
Contact Information
Passionfish
FORUM:
Patti Parisi
Director of Communications & Creative Development, Passionfish
510.593.5188
510.217.4060 (fax)
patti@passionfish.org
SCRIPPS CENTENNIAL:
Mario Aguilera
Assistant Director of Communications, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD
858.534.3626
858.534.5306 (fax)
maguilera@ucsd.edu
Patti Parisi
Co-Founder
Director of Communications & Creative Development
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Passionfish FORUM ON SUSTAINABLE FISHERIES & SEAFOOD
September 25, 2003 in San Diego
Passionfish
is a non-profit organization promoting sustainable wild
fisheries and aquaculture through public education and stakeholder
collaboration. We are holding a one-of-a-kind forum at Oceans 2003, the
world's largest oceans' conference. Public figures, civic leaders, and
experts from diverse sectors will engage in a spirit and evocative
panel discussion on sustainable fisheries and seafood.
This is a can't-miss event!
Thursday, September 25, 2003
1:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Pacific Salons 2-3
Town & Country Resort Hotel
500 Hotel Circle North
San Diego, CA
*this is in the Mission Valley area of San Diego
*ATTENDANCE IS FREE
*arrive early as this will start right on time
VISIT: http://www.passionfish.org
for more details.
Passionfish
is for people passionate about the ocean, fishing, and seafood! We are a
nonprofit public education project actively promoting sustainable wild
fisheries and aquaculture. Founded in 2000, Passionfish has developed an
innovative approach for addressing seafood and fisheries sustainability: forums
that reveal common ground amid contention, celebrations of seafood, broadcasts
that build awareness, and a unique book series aimed at inspiring consumers and
students about seafood and ocean sustainability. Match your passion with
cash--please support Passionfish. Visit us at http://www.passionfish.org/support.htm
Thank you!
Prior Notice of same event:
GET IN AT THE BEGINNING OF ”SUSTAINABLE SAN DIEGO”:
AN AUDACIOUS IDEA, AN AMAZING CITY, A SERIOUS CAUSE
September 3, 2003 — San Diego, CA. Our oceans’
bounty isn’t what it used to be. What it will be is determined by what we buy
and sell today. Sustainable seafood isn’t just a slogan — it’s a balance
between commerce and conservation, between landlubbers and sea lovers. Discover
where you fit. Passionfish will
convene a spirited and evocative forum on the contentious issues of marine
fisheries and seafood consumption in San Diego on Thursday, September 25, 2003.
Come learn, laugh, and leave inspired.
The Passionfish forum will engage a broad
spectrum of experts from across the country representing seafood and restaurant
businesses, conservation, philanthropy, media, government, aquaculture,
fishing, and academia. These diverse stakeholders share the one goal of
fisheries sustainability although their views often diverge on the means of
achieving it.
The urgency of multiple
sectors working cooperatively cannot be understated. All agree that a crisis
exists in our ocean and that action must be taken now. Who should act and what
should be done, however, depends on whom you ask. It’s a global issue with
goliath dimensions. Between the titans exists Passionfish. We get the experts talking to
one another and to affected communities. In San Diego we’re in search of common
ground for collaborative problem solving.
The
two-and-a-half hour moderated forum will explore three distinct approaches to
tackling fisheries and seafood sustainability: environmental stewardship,
fishing industry leadership, and market-based resource management. While an
afternoon is inadequate to solve the problems, this simplified framework offers
transformative insights into the issues, the beliefs of others, and one’s own
convictions. Our forum peels back superficial disagreement. What are revealed
are bedrock core values. With a solid understanding of what we each treasure
there is hope for saving what we all love. San Diego is a community that is
geographically, economically, philosophically, and internationally poised to
seize this leadership role.
Moderating
the panel will be author Bradford Matsen. Matsen is an authority on fisheries
issues, a past editor of National Fisherman, and a renowned author and
photographer. “Everything we know about the ocean tells us that our
relationship with it is fragile and in some cases toxic,” Matsen says. “The
pressure of almost six billion humans on the sea and its creatures is a
phenomenon that has never been experienced before, and it calls for the utmost
in creativity and awareness to kindle hope for a benevolent future. In its San
Diego forum on sustainability, Passionfish
is bringing together a group of people who are simply not willing to ignore the
call for collaborative action. I can’t wait to spend the afternoon with them.”
“In San
Diego, this trend-setting collaboration will draw together restaurateurs,
wholesalers, tourism officials, elected officials, and advertising firms in an
ambitious campaign we’ve named “Sustainable San Diego,” says Passionfish Executive Director and
Co-founder Carl Rebstock. “Our aim is for America’s Finest City to be the first
of a string of pearls that threads its way up the West Coast of North America.
The courses of action this community’s businesses choose to undertake will be
based on sound information, will leverage the market responsibly, and will
provide an international model for public-private partnership.”
“Most
people feel removed from this debate although it affects an important and
beloved food source,” says Patti Parisi, Passionfish
Co-founder. “And those that are involved are often engaged in heated battles
about tactics. In short, businesses are passionate about profit, and
environmentalists are passionate about conservation. We believe that, with the
right approach, these passions can be reconciled and directed into a powerful
force for change.”
And,
says Passionfish Co-founder Andrew
Ryland Spurgin, “We founded Passionfish
because no one else was doing this. People who agreed with each other were
talking among themselves. Meanwhile, it was business as usual for everyone else
who were either unaware, on a soapbox, or alienated. Respecting various
stakeholders and bringing them together in an educational dialogue is the
answer. Providing awareness and building relationships is the first step.”
The Passionfish panel discussion is part of
the Oceans 2003 Marine Technology and Ocean Conference in San Diego. The
five-day conference is being billed as the largest “Oceans” conference ever.
The forum is co-sponsored by
Scripps Institution of Oceanography and coincides with its Centennial.
The Passionfish forum will be held Thursday,
September 25, 1:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. in the Regency Tower Room at the Town and
Country Resort & Conference Center, 500 Hotel Circle North, San Diego, in
Mission Valley. Admission is free and open to the public. Look for signs
directing you to the forum.
This can’t-miss event will be like nothing you’ve ever experienced.
Panelists:
Sebastian Belle, Executive
Director, Maine Aquaculture Association
Robert Francis, Ph.D.,
Professor, University of Washington (invited)
Trevor Gowdy, ESPN TV host
and videographer (invited)
Jeremy Jackson, Ph.D., Professor,
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
A. Samuel King, President
& CEO, King’s Seafood
John LaGrange, fisherman and
President, American Fishermen’s Research Foundation
Dick Murphy, Mayor, City of
San Diego (invited)
Dierk Peters, Ph.D.,
Director, Sustainability Project, Unilever (invited)
Walter Pereyra, Ph.D.,
Chairman, Arctic Storm Management Group, Inc.
Michael Sutton, Director,
Ocean Conservation Program, David & Lucile Packard Foundation
Linda Sheehan, Director,
Pacific Regional Office, The Ocean Conservancy
Christopher Speed, N.D., Manager, Food and Nutrition Strategies, Oldways
Preservation Trust
Brad Warren, Editor, Pacific
Fishing Magazine
Moderator:
Bradford Matsen, Author of
books and films on marine science, fisheries, and seafood
Passionfish is for people passionate
about the ocean, fishing, and seafood! We are a nonprofit public education
project actively promoting sustainable wild fisheries and aquaculture. Founded in 2000, Passionfish
has developed an innovative approach for addressing seafood and fisheries
sustainability: forums that reveal common ground amid contention, celebrations
of seafood, broadcasts that build awareness, and a unique book series aimed at
inspiring consumers and students about ocean and seafood sustainability.
Match your passion with cash -- please support Passionfish. Visit us at http://www.passionfish.org
.
Contact
Information
PASSIONFISH FORUM:
Patti
Parisi
Director
of Communications & Creative Development, Passionfish
510.593.5188
510.217.4060
(fax)
SCRIPPS CENTENNIAL:
Mario
Aguilera
Assistant
Director of Communications, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD
858.534.3626
858.534.5306
(fax)
maguilera@ucsd.edu
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