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Crab Sustainability


Here’s what we’re doing to keep our promise to source our products with integrity:

• Created the Division of Aquaculture & Sustainability- 2007
  
  
• Hired two well-known marine biologists, Ed Rhodes & Rob Garrison to lead the sourcing, aquaculture and sustainability effort for Phillips- 2007
  
  
• Steve Phillips and Asian team organize first meeting of Indonesian crab producers. They form APRI organization- 2007
  
  
• APRI conducts MSC pre-assessment of crab industry- 2008
  
  
• Steve Phillips and Asian team organize first meeting of Philippine crab producers. They form PACPI organization- 2008
  
  
• Launched Barramundi aquaculture farm for sustainably grown fish species- 2008
  
  
• Steve Phillips begins Philippine and Indonesian Embassy visits to promote crab sustainability- 2009
  
  
• Steve Phillips meets with Secretary of Agriculture in Philippines- 2009
  
  
• Steve Phillips organizes meeting of US importers of crabmeat to form industry group- 2009
  
  
• Crab Council officially forms for US importers under National Fisheries Institute- 2009
  
  
• 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- 2009
  
  
• Phillips partners with Sustainable Fisheries Partnership- 2009
  
  
• Steve Phillips speaks at Seafood Summit in Paris to promote crab sustainability- 2009
  
  

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