FishWise Charts its 2030 Course with Strategic Board Appointments
Santa Cruz, CA | Sept. 8, 2025 — FishWise is welcoming 5 new leaders to its Board of Administrators, because it deepens its position as a connector between enterprise, science and sustainability. This marks a pivotal step ahead within the group’s mission to construct a extra accountable and resilient seafood system.
This strategic growth comes at a time of rising urgency throughout the seafood sector, the place intersecting challenges of provide chain transparency, human and labor rights demand daring, coordinated motion. With many years of mixed expertise in world commerce, sustainability and fairness, this board of administrators will assist sharpen FishWise’s technique and scale its affect at a important second.
“We’re getting into this subsequent part of our work with readability and objective, and importantly, with deep gratitude for the board members who helped get us right here,” stated Jenny Barker, Govt Director of FishWise. “Their dedication helped form our identification as a trusted companion to {industry} and authorities to enhance world seafood provide chains. Our new board will strengthen that identification with the imaginative and prescient and pragmatism we have to hold constructing real-world options.”
The brand new members becoming a member of FishWise’s board are:
- Eric Buescher, Legal professional specializing in environmental litigation technique
- Nicole Condon, Seafood sustainability chief; Director of CSR & ESG at Oddisea SuperFrozen
- Chris Giordano, Fisheries and aquatic meals programs skilled with 12+ years throughout Africa, Asia, and Latin America
- Mark Kaplan, Chief Sustainability Officer at Wholechain; leads the Higher Meals Future initiative with the UN International Compact
- Joe Lasprogata, 30+ 12 months seafood {industry} chief in strategic progress, product innovation, and operations at Samuels Seafood Co.
In a joint assertion, the brand new board members stated: “We’re becoming a member of FishWise at a time when the seafood sector should evolve in a sooner, smarter, and extra equitable method. Collectively, we see an pressing alternative to assist form a future the place transparency is commonplace, human rights are protected, and sustainability drives each determination. We’re honored to contribute our views and assist speed up lasting change.”
Over the previous three years, FishWise has superior human rights due diligence throughout world seafood provide chains, helped form accountable sourcing methods for retailers, and launched the RISE platform to assist industry-wide collaboration. The brand new board will assist increase on this momentum, guiding efforts to embed human rights, traceability and accountability into the guts of the seafood system.
Richard Stavis, the board chair, stated this second marks a robust inflection level for FishWise. “I’m deeply grateful to the board and nominations committee for serving to herald such forward-thinking leaders to information what comes subsequent.”
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About FishWise
FishWise is a nonprofit sustainable seafood consultancy primarily based in California that takes a holistic strategy to sustainability and goals to rework how the worldwide seafood {industry} does enterprise so as to defend ocean well being and employees’ rights. Providing experience that’s trusted by human rights and conservation organizations, seafood consumers and suppliers, and authorities representatives, FishWise affords a variety of providers that empower companies and a various group of collaborators to guide the transition to a sustainable, ethically accountable seafood {industry}. For extra data, please go to www.FishWise.org, and comply with FishWise’s work on Instagram and LinkedIn.
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