For Immediate Release
March 20, 2017
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CHEFS FOR OCEANS FOUNDER NED BELL NAMED SEAWEB SEAFOOD CHAMPION AWARD FINALIST
Bell in Good Company
Amongst Sustainability Advocates Driving Progress through
Leadership, Innovation, Vision and Activism
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Vancouver, B.C. -
Ned Bell, Ocean Wise executive chef at the Vancouver Aquarium and founder of Chefs for Oceans, is one of four finalists for the 2017 Seafood Champion Award for Advocacy, announced by SeaWeb. A panel of seafood sustainability experts from industry and nonprofit organizations based in Asia, Europe and North America recognized Bell for his ongoing efforts to raise awareness about sustainable seafood. In 2014, he rode his bike 8,700 km across Canada, hosting 20 events alongside some of the country's best chefs, and he continues to make sustainable seafood his mission.
"Without healthy oceans, lakes and rivers, we don't have
healthy people," says
Bell. "The Chefs for Oceans foundation, along with my role as Ocean Wise Executive Chef at the Vancouver Aquarium and my soon-to-be released sustainable seafood cookbook, Lure have provided a platform to educate and inspire seafood lovers on the importance of making sustainable seafood choices. My unique perspective as a chef provides a level of approachability within the common language of food to convey the importance of ensuring there is still something there for future generations to enjoy."
The annual Seafood Champion Awards program, now in its 11th year, recognizes individuals and organizations for excellence in promoting environmentally responsible seafood. There are 16 finalists in four categories. Winners will be announced at an awards ceremony on June 5 at the SeaWeb Seafood Summit in Seattle.
"This year's finalists have a global perspective, whether they act locally or at a broader level," said Mark Spalding, president of SeaWeb and The Ocean Foundation. "Improving seafood's sustainability requires addressing difficult political, technical, social and economic questions. To create change, you have to forge alliances and bring people together around a common cause. These are not easy things to do, but the champions on this list have forged ahead and are making real progress."
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Chefs have a unique opportunity, quite honestly a responsibility, to raise awareness and educate the people that we feed around the importance of choosing responsible seafood that helps the species, oceans and our communities thrive. Being recognized for my efforts with this nomination means a lot," says Bell.
The Seafood Champion Award for Advocacy recognizes the promotion of sustainability, use of the media to raise the profile of sustainable seafood, work to strengthen public policy and resource allocations, and championing of advances in sustainable seafood. For a full list of finalists, click here.
About SeaWeb
SeaWeb
serves the sustainable seafood community by nourishing a coordinated infrastructure of people and knowledge to guide, inspire and reward the seafood industry's adoption of sustainable practices. SeaWeb is a project of The Ocean Foundation, a unique community foundation with a mission to support, strengthen and promote organizations dedicated to reversing the trend of destruction of ocean environments around the world. SeaWeb produces the Seafood Summit in partnership with Diversified Communications.
About Chefs for Oceans
Ned Bell founded
Chefs for Oceans
in 2014 to raise awareness about the importance of making responsible seafood decisions by riding his bike over 8,600 kilometres across Canada. Chefs from coast to coast to coast have joined the efforts to impact the way Canadians think about the seafood they eat, where it comes from, and how it arrives to their dinner plate. The Chefs for Oceans collaborative continues to bring chefs across North America together in support of healthier oceans. Ned's first solo cookbook, Lure - Sustainable Seafood Recipes from the West
Coast,
is coming out later this year.
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Media Contact: Ned Bell Kate Colley Chefs for Oceans Colley Communications Inc. P: 604.240.5840 604.644.7976
nedbell@shaw.ca kate@colleycommunications.com @nedbell SeaWeb: Sandra Stewart Sarah Grolnic-McClurg Thinkshift Communications Thinkshift Communications
415.391.4449 510.898.1837
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