This was originally published on Wednesday, October 05, 2016 on SeafoodSource.com by Cliff White, Editor.
U.S. President Barack Obama has announced his choices to be the first ever “Champions of Change for Sustainable Seafood.”
The special awards, established this year as a way to “honor America’s fishers and our coastal communities for their efforts… [in leading] the way to the United States becoming a global leader in sustainable seafood management,” will be handed out on Friday, 7 October at a special ceremony at the White House in Washington D.C.
The awardees are:
- Robin Alden, the founding Executive Director of Penobscot East Resource Center, Maine’s center for coastal fisheries in Stonington, Maine. She led a path-breaking effort to bring shared management to Maine’s lobster fishery, now recognized internationally as a model for sustainable fisheries. Robin is the former Commissioner of the Maine Department of Marine Resources, responsible for Maine‘s marine and anadromous fishery management and enforcement and for aquaculture in the state. She was also the publisher and editor of both Commercial Fisheries News and Fish Farming News and a public member of the New England Fishery Management Council.
Congratulations to Robin Alden, Executive Director of the Penobscot East Resource Center in Maine, and past Summit delegate!
