SeasonalCatch Seafood Initiative - Beyond Our Shores Foundation

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The SeasonalCatch Seafood Initiative was created by the Beyond Our Shores Foundation (BOSF) to promote market incentives and collect data that did not previously exist on small-scale fishing operations and seafood dynamics in Puerto Rico as well as to drive environmental stewardship, sustainable fishing practices, and responsible harvest of species such as dolphinfish. We believe that by providing incentives and educational tools from our research to seafood restaurant-fishermen partnerships in Puerto Rico, incentives and tools that both benefit their business, clientele, and ability to lead by example, they become the beat of ocean conservation in their communities and will safeguard their local marine resources for generations to come. Working in partnership with BOSF for nearly two years, MenTa Cuisine was equipped with an industrial strength generator, one of a few equipment and technology upgrades MenTa Cuisine received in exchange for participating in the SeasonalCatch Seafood Initiative. Before the completion of this pilot program, we estimated that MenTa Cuisine received business from dozens of customers because they remained open during blackouts not to mention saved precious time and money by not having to run errands to gather supplies to save their local catch from spoiling without power. The pilot program is designed to help local businesses, the economy, and collect new data to improve fisheries management and our understanding of seafood dynamics in Puerto Rico. Watch this film to learn how we implemented this pilot program in Puerto Rico. This pilot program was made possible through a grant from the Waitt Foundation and participation of the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business Global Fellows Program. Visit beyondourshores.org/seasonalcatch to learn more and to get involved. Follow the program on facebook @seasonalcatch.
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