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GSSI WELCOMES AQUA-SPARK TO ITS GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP

GSSI WELCOMES AQUA-SPARK

GSSI welcomes Aqua-Spark to its Global Partnership. The Global Sustainable Seafood Initiative is pleased to announce that Aqua-Spark has joined GSSI as a Funding Partner. Aqua-Spark is the first investor to join GSSI’s Global Partnership.

With the Earth’s natural resources under severe pressure, one of our most pressing challenges will be to feed everyone a balanced and nutritious diet while keeping our effects on the environment to a minimum. Aquaculture, done in a socially and environmentally friendly manner, is crucial to meet the growing demand for healthy and sustainably produced food. Aqua-Spark is a global investment fund that invests in companies all along the aquaculture value chain working to solve industry challenges, with a shared vision of a sustainable future.

“Joining GSSI reflects our collaborative approach with the belief that different stakeholders need to work together toward an aligned vision of a sustainable future. We bring our expertise in investing in businesses that provide both competitive returns and sustainability impacts, to the sustainable seafood conversation. We are eager to continue exploring how (present and future) GSSI tools can be applied to investment processes and/or by our portfolio companies. We also hope that by becoming a member of GSSI we will create an appetite for other seafood investors to join GSSI, hence making the investment sector a more integral part of the sustainable seafood conversation.” – Amy Novogratz, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Aqua-Spark.

“With more than 50% of all fish we consume being farmed, the sustainability of the aquaculture sector is critical in order to continue to meet the growing demand for nutritious seafood in the future. We are very excited for Aqua-Spark to join the GSSI Partnership as the first investment company. We believe this partnership is an important step in better aligning investment, markets and industry to help accelerate sustainable aquaculture development so that more sustainable seafood can be accessible for everyone.” – Herman Wisse, Executive Director of GSSI

About Aqua-Spark

Aqua-Spark is a global investment fund based in the Netherlands, that is developing the optimal aquaculture food system by investing in companies all along the aquaculture value chain, working to solve industry challenges, with a shared vision of a sustainable future.
For more information, please visit www.aqua-spark.nl.

About GSSI

As the public-private partnership on seafood sustainability with 90+ stakeholders industry-wide, GSSI aligns global efforts and resources to address the latest seafood sustainability challenges. Governed by a Steering Board representing the full seafood value chain, companies, NGOs, governments and international organisations – including the FAO –, GSSI promotes sector-wide collaboration to drive forward more sustainable seafood for everyone.

For more information on the benefits of joining the GSSI Global Partnership and how to become a partner, please visit www.ourgssi.org or contact secretariat@ourgssi.org.

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