1. Gulf Seafood Institute Gulf of Mexico Offshore Aquaculture Roundtable
November 14-15, 2016
Wally Stevens, Executive Director
Global Aquaculture Alliance

3. What was support like in 1987?
Government and regulatory entities in U.S.
Research
Marketplace acceptance
Investor Funding
Knowledge of best practices
Consumer perceptions

4. Government & Regulatory Entities in U.S.

5. Research

6. Marketplace Acceptance

7. Non-food Uses
1987

8. Investor Funding

9. Knowledge of Best Practices

10. Consumer Perceptions

11. 1987
Non-food Uses

13. U.S. Per Capita Consumption - 2015
Species
Consumption (pounds)
Shrimp*
4.0
Salmon*
2.88
Tuna
2.2
Tilapia*
1.38
Alaska Pollock
0.97
Pangasius*
0.74
Cod
0.60
Crab
0.55
Catfish*
0.52
Clams
0.33
Total Per Capita Consumption
15.5
Top 10 as % of Total Consumption
91.46%
*These species are principally farmed

16. BAP Certified Facilities

17. Market Endorsers
Acme AD Delhaize Albertson’s Aldi Aldi U.K. Asda Baker’s BistroMD B.J.’s Wholesale Club Bidvest Australia Big Y Bloom Bottom Dollar Food Brinker International Byerly’s Camanchaca Channel Processing Co. Inc. City Markets Coles COOP Cotton Field Organic Store (Taiwan) Cub Foods Danube Company Limited Darden Restaurants Davigel Delhaize Delhaize City Dillons Direct Seafoods/Seafood Holdings Limited Disney Disney Shanghai DNI Group Eastern Fish Co. Empress International, Ltd. Expack Seafood, Inc. Export Packers Co. Ltd. Farm Fresh The Fishin’ Company Foodland Food Lion Foodvest Fry’s Gfresh.com Giant Eagle Giant Food Supermarkets Gorton’s Seafood Great American Seafood Imports Co. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. H & N Foods International Hai Yang International, Inc.
Hannaford Bros. Harbor Seafood Harris Teeter Harvest Select Harveys Supermarkets H-E-B High Liner Foods Inc. Hilander Hornbacher’s IGA (Canada) IGA Extra (Canada) International Marketing Specialists, Inc. iPura J. Sainsbury JayC Food Stores Jewel-Osco King Soopers Kroger Co. Loblaw Companies Limited Long John Silver’s Lucky Lunds Lyons Seafoods, Ltd. M&J Seafood/Fresh Direct Group Makro Supermayorista S.A. Maloney Seafood Corp. Marine Harvest Canada Market Basket Mazzetta Company, LLC McCaffrey’s Meijer Meridian Products Metcash Limited Metro (Canada) Metro Group Morrisons Mt. Cook Alpine Salmon National Fish & Seafood Inc. North Coast Seafoods Odyssey Enterprises, Inc. OFI Markesa International Ore-Cal Corp. Orion Seafood International, Inc. Owen’s PanaPesca USA Corp. Panda United Company Pathmark Pay Less Super Markets Price Chopper PriceRite PSC Enterprise, LLC Quality Food Centers
Quirch Foods Rain Forest Aquaculture Raley’s Ralphs Red Market REWE Rich Products Corp. Rubicon Resources Rubio’s Restaurants, Inc. Sam’s Club Save-A-Lot Schnucks Scott’s Food & Pharmacy Sea Port Products Corp. SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment Shaw’s/Star Market Shop ‘n Go Shop ‘n Save Shoppers Food & Pharmacy ShopRite Slade Gorton & Co. Inc. Smith’s Sobeys Sodexo Stop & Shop Sunnyvale Seafood Superfresh Supervalu Inc. Supreme Lobster and Seafood Co. Tampa Bay Fisheries Target Tassal Group Ltd. Tesco Thrifty Foods Topco Associates, LLC Tops Markets, LLC Tropical Aquaculture Products US Foods Wakefern Food Corp. Waitrose Waldbaum’s Walmart Walmart Canada Walmart Global Sourcing Company Wegmans Food Markets, Inc. WinCo Foods Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc. Wok Box Woolworths Wuhan Lanesync Supply Chain Management Co., Ltd Yum Brands! China

18. Excerpts from an article by Deena Shanker for Bloomberg
“Industrial fish farms can pollute the water and disrupt natural ecosystems,” said Marianne Cufone, director of Recirculating Farms Coalition. “Thousands of fish escape from cages regularly, potentially spreading disease and parasites to wild fish and out-competing them for food, habitat, and mates. Rather than supporting outdated and risky ocean aquaculture, the Western Pacific Council should encourage more sustainable options.”
“The U.S. has a seafood trade deficit of about $14 billion,” said David O’Brien, Deputy Director of NOAA’s office of aquaculture. “Why can’t we be doing more domestically, locally?” he asked. “The deficit points to an opportunity that we’re not taking advantage of.”
But the whole argument over opening federal waters to aquaculture assumes that somewhere, a corporation is looking to jump in. Thus far, none has. Since the regulations opening the Gulf of Mexico were published in January, not a single application for a permit has been received.

19. “Other than Atlantic salmon, oysters, and clams, production of marine species in the U.S. is…a relatively unproven business proposition,” NOAA’s director of the Office of Aquaculture, Michael Rubino, wrote in a January report.
Barry Costa Pierce, director of the University of New England’s Center of Excellence in the Marine Sciences, said “In the Gulf, I don’t see very many companies rushing to get in because they know they can’t make money.”

20. Linnaeus “will not be developing its aquaculture portfolio” and is not making any new investments at the moment.

21. What is support like today?
Government and regulatory entities in U.S.
Research
Marketplace acceptance
Investor Funding
Knowledge of best practices
Consumer perceptions