2015 Seafood Champion Award for Leadership awarded to IFFO’s Andrew Jackson

2015 Seafood Champion Award for Leadership awarded to IFFO’s Andrew Jackson

IFFO is proud to announce that our Technical Director Dr Andrew Jackson was last night presented with the 2015 Seafood Champion Award for Leadership.  Dr Jackson was one of four finalists in the Leadership category at the Seafood Champion Awards Ceremony, hosted at the SeaWeb Seafood Summit in New Orleans.  Held to recognise individuals and companies for inspirational work promoting seafood sustainability, the awards were presented before hundreds of the world’s leading voices on sustainable seafood at the SeaWeb Seafood Summit.

This year, for the first time, the Seafood Champion Awards honored excellence in four targeted categories: Leadership, Innovation, Vision and Advocacy. The six winners were chosen from a group of sixteen finalists that represent the best of the best in sustainability from around the world. The group of finalists hailed from Argentina, Canada, the United Kingdom, Indonesia, Japan, New Zealand, the Republic of the Maldives, Panama and the United States, covering five continents. They were selected from over 100 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.

The 2015 Seafood Champion Award for Leadership was awarded to IFFO’s Dr Andrew Jackson for working with stakeholders toward creating a uniform standard and encouraging responsible production of fishmeal and fish oil, often used as feed in aquaculture. As a result of his efforts, 100+ fishmeal/fish oil production plants across nine countries are now independently certified to IFFO’s standard.

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I am delighted to have been honoured with this award from Seaweb. It is very encouraging to myself and the team I have worked with over the years to have our efforts recognised in this way. Our work is far from over but this should give us the determination to continue our efforts.

Andrew Jackson, Technical Director, IFFO

For more information about the 2015 Seafood Champion Awards visit: http://www.seafoodchampions.org/

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Please contact:                   Georgie Harris, Communications and Membership Manager

T: +44 (0) 2030 539 195 - E: gharris@iffo.net

Notes for Editors

  1. IFFO represents the marine ingredients industry worldwide. IFFO’s members reside in more than 60 countries, account for over 50% of world production and 75% of the fishmeal and fish oil traded worldwide. Approximately 5 million tonnes of fishmeal are produced each year globally, together with 1 million tonnes of fish oil. IFFO’s headquarters are located in London in the United Kingdom and it also has offices in Lima, Peru, and in Beijing, China. IFFO is an accredited Observer to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). For more information, visit the IFFO website - http://www.iffo.net/
  2. The Global Standard for Responsible Supply (IFFO RS) is a business-to-business certification programme that enables a compliant factory to demonstrate that it responsibly sources its raw material from well-managed fisheries and responsibly converts that into pure and safe products. To be certified fishmeal and fish oil factories must demonstrate sourcing from well managed fisheries and safe and traceable production. Assessments are conducted by an independent certification body and in just over two years, IFFO RS has successfully attracted over 110 certified factories, spread across nine countries. Most of the largest fisheries such as Peruvian anchovy, Alaskan Pollock, Blue Whiting in UK, Iceland and Norway, Gulf menhaden in USA and many more have been approved for supply into the manufacturing food chain including whole fish and by- product raw material to produce compliant fishmeal and fish oil. For more information visit the IFFO RS Website - http://www.iffo.net/iffo-rs
  3. Fishmeal is a natural, balanced, highly nutritious feed ingredient used in diets for farmed fish and crustaceans and as a high protein supplement in nutritionally demanding periods in the life cycle of pigs and poultry, as well as in pet food.
  4. Fish oil is the major natural source (97%) of the healthy long chain omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids, EPA and DHA. Most fish oil is used in feeds for farmed fish and there is an expanding market for fish oil for human nutritional supplements and functional foods.