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Characteristics of Successful Sustainable Fishery Initiatives
Over the past six years, Wilderness Markets has assessed sustainable fisheries investment opportunities in more than fifteen different wild capture fisheries worldwide. Our specific objective is defining how to make
Is Losing the Amazon Inevitable?
As the Amazon burns, and the world responds, this might be a good time to reflect on some of the key drivers of this tragedy.
Three major trends have combined
Fisheries Improvements & Social Impacts
Many years ago, when I was a hotel manager at a resort in a national marine park, I was roundly castigated for employing poachers as guards and fishermen as boat
LEVERAGE LEAD FIRMS: ENDURANCE AND EFFICIENCY
Wilderness Markets’ goal with lead firm projects is to attract private, return-seeking impact investment and complement ongoing work by fishery managers and NGOs to improve fisheries.
Blue Star Foods initiative shows 3BL efforts work
BSC fisherman with new vessel tracking device
Blue Star Foods, the Miami, Florida based seafood specialist, is proving that it is possible to have a sustainable
Investing for Sustainable Fisheries Needs Funding for Capacity Building
Impact investors are ready to invest increasing amounts of impact capital in sustainable fisheries; what’s missing are profitable businesses and organizations with the capacity to accept investment. These profitable “investible
Is this what success looks like?
An ongoing discussion between people in the conservation finance community is how we define success.
Reviewing the data – which we like to do (see below) – does not demonstrate much
Marine Heat Waves More Common and Lasting Longer Globally
A study done by the Marine Heatwaves International Working Group showed that there has been a 54% increase globally in the number of “marine heat wave days” per year
Improve Data to Improve Sustainability
Not finding a suitable existing program, Blue Star Foods decided to develop their own application to gather data tied to their marketing goals and objectives around supply chain integrity. The SIMP and EU CD data requirements were integrated into the data collection system. Wilderness Markets worked closely with an app-development team to develop an Android and iOS application and support the field trials. After the initial field trials, the system was deployed to in-house teams from Blue Star Foods Indonesian partners, consisting of procurement and quality control specialist
Investing in sustainability – the role of intangibles
“Early in the twenty-first century, a quiet revolution occurred. For the first time, the major developed economies began to invest more in intangible assets, like design, branding, R&D, and software,
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