New Brunswick set to host GOAL conference
The town of Saint John, New Brunswick on Canada’s Atlantic coast will play host to the GOAL Accountable Seafood Convention in 2023, it was introduced yesterday.
GOAL, the biggest worldwide seafood enterprise convention of its variety, will convey 500 seafood trade leaders from world wide to Saint John.
It will likely be solely the second time that GOAL has been held in Canada. The convention is the flagship occasion for the World Seafood Alliance (GSA), a world, not-for-profit commerce affiliation devoted to advancing accountable seafood practices by way of schooling, advocacy and third-party assurances.
The Atlantic Canada Fish Farmers Affiliation (ACFFA), the commerce affiliation representing the area’s fish farming sector, led the bid and can work with Canada’s federal authorities, New Brunswick’s provincial authorities and different seafood trade our bodies all through Atlantic Canada, together with a number of producer associations for each farmed and wild seafood, to ship the occasion together with GSA.
GSA CEO, Brian Perkins, stated: “Atlantic Canada is a serious seafood producer on the worldwide aquaculture scene, significantly with salmon. The area’s finfish and shellfish aquaculture farmers have embraced greatest practices and are extremely thought to be accountable and important contributors to the agricultural coastal economic system and dealing waterfronts in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island. Coupled with a wealthy custom of wild-harvest fisheries, New Brunswick is a perfect match for GOAL 2023 and GSA.”
This 12 months’s GOAL takes place in Seattle (3-5 October), having been moved from its unique venue, Tokyo due to pandemic journey restrictions in Japan. In 2024 Scotland will host GOAL, at a venue but to be confirmed.
