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Crab Sustainability


Here’s what’s happening at Phillips and with Phillips leadership to keep our promise to source crab meat and other seafood products responsibly:

• Phillips adopts NFI minimum size requirements for crab catch in US and Asia
  
  
• Seafood Champion Awarded to Steve Phillips by the Seafood Choices Alliance for his vision and leadership establishing a thriving blue swimming crab industry that is now on the path to sustainability across Asia.
  
  
• Phillips launches new sustainability logo on crab meat cans and master cartons.
  
  

• Steve Phillips and Ed Rhodes provide push for the formation of an association of "Seafood Sustainability Directors" to coordinate broader US industry efforts.
  
  
• Steve Phillips and Asian team initiate dialog with World Wildlife Fund on crab fishery sustainability in Vietnam.
  
  
• Phillips initiates program across global operations to reduce energy and water use and minimize waste in processing.
  
  
• NFI Crab Council provides major funding for crab fishery improvement programs in Indonesia and the Philippines.
  
  
• Phillips adds NFI Crab Council sustainability logo to packaging to promote the new program. Launching Winter 2010.
  
  
• Steve Phillips speaks at Seafood Summit in Paris to promote crab sustainability.
  
  
• Steve Phillips and Asian team lead Crab Council efforts to form crab producer associations in Thailand and India.
  
  

• Steve Phillips begins Philippine and Indonesian Embassy visits to promote crab sustainability.
  
  
• Steve Phillips meets with Secretary of Agriculture in Philippines.
  
  
• Steve Phillips organizes meeting of US importers of crab meat to form industry group.
  
  
• Crab Council officially forms for US importers under National Fisheries Institute.
  
  
• Phillips organizes crab fact finding trip for World Bank to Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines in effort to gain understanding of crab fishery in Asia.
  
  
• Phillips partners with Sustainable Fisheries Partnership.
  
  

• APRI conducts MSC pre-assessment of crab industry.
  
  
• Phillips launches Barramundi aquaculture farm for sustainably grown fish species.
  
  
• Steve Phillips and Asian team organize first meeting of Philippine crab producers; leads to the formation of PACPI.
  
  

• Created the Division of Aquaculture & Sustainability.
  
  
• Hired two well-known marine biologists, Ed Rhodes & Rob Garrison to lead the sourcing, aquaculture and sustainability effort for Phillips.
  
  
• Steve Phillips and Asian team organize first meeting of Indonesian crab producers leading to the formation of APRI.
  
  

Phillips has adopted Sustainable.org’s definition of sustainability as our guiding light:

The ability to provide for the needs of the world’s current population without damaging the ability of future generations to provide for themselves. When a process is sustainable, it can be carried out over and over without negative environmental effects or impossibly high costs to anyone involved