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08/01/2024
Exciting news! The Domestic Seafood Production Act (DSPA) is being introduced in Congress!
In March, we joined forces with Don't Cage Our Oceans to educate legislators about this crucial bill. Our efforts, combined with those of many dedicated individuals and organizations, have paid off.
A huge thank you to:
- Mary Peltolafor championing this cause
- North American Marine Alliance for their unwavering support
- Don't Cage Our Oceans for their boots-on-the-ground grit!
- All the passionate advocates who helped bring this bill to the forefront
The DSPA aims to boost domestic seafood production while protecting our marine ecosystems. It's a win for coastal communities, sustainable fishing practices, and our oceans.
Stay tuned for updates as this important legislation moves forward!
Rep. Mary Sattler Peltola (D-AK) this week introduced the Domestic Seafood Production Act (DSPA), legislation to help address food security in communities historically reliant on coastal and marine resources by helping them build seafood processing capacity for local use. Peltola’s bill would prev...
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Pacific Cloud Seafoods is a values-based seafood company delivering sustainably caught seafood to people who believe in eating with the ecosystem.
We believe in protecting the integrity of the world's marine ecosystems and promoting healthy, ocean-dependent coastal communities. It's important that we fish with the planet, carefully harvesting what it provides when it provides it, rather than forcing the planet to meet the often-unreasonable demands of the market.
We believe that small- and medium-scale community-based fisheries bring value to marine ecosystems, coastal communities, working waterfronts, local and regional economies, and our food systems.
We believe that food should be healthy and food systems should be fair, transparent and responsible.
You can feel good about putting our values onto your plate.
On a mission to make an impact.
Pacific Cloud Seafoods is on a mission to connect like-minded consumers with conscious, values-oriented producers. As part of the Local Catch Network, we're working to help small-scale fisheries find equitable markets for their high-quality seafood. Our ultimate goal? To be part of building a decentralized seafood supply chain that can not only withstand the downward pressure of Big Business, but that gives you healthy options, connects you to those who produce your food, and enables you to eat with the ecosystem.
A fishery built on tradition.
CEO Ryan Horwath grew up in Rochester, NY, and now lives in Buffalo with his partner and daughter. When he's not in upstate New York, he's on a small boat jigging for cod and rockfish in the pristine waters off Kodiak, Alaska.
He and his dad, Joe, moved to Kodiak in October 2003 to continue his family's fishing tradition, taking the reins of his Uncle Steve's fishing business after a sudden accident took his life. Uncle Steve was the legend who first introduced Ryan to Alaska and the joys of fishing. He fished King Crab in the 1970s and his deckhands adored him. It was Steve who brought the Pacific Cloud to Alaska's Dutch Harbor to jig cod—and the rest is, as they say, history.
Ryan felt compelled to leave his “ordinary” life behind and venture into the world of commercial fishing. Now, more than a decade later, fishing has become his passion! Being self-taught, he quickly learned the hard lessons, which inspired him to reach out to both novice and veteran fishermen and help them along their way.
When he’s not fishing, Ryan’s actively trying to keep opportunities alive for aspiring fishermen—and he’s deeply involved on the advocacy side, too, as an advocate for sustainable fisheries. Why?
The reason is twofold. First, as Ryan says: “My Uncle Steve came up here with nothing and was able to fish open-access fisheries. Those opportunities are closing up.” And second? The ongoing corporate consolidation and privatization of a resource that was one public.
Because he knows the importance of small, community-minded seafood companies, Ryan is a member of the Alaska Jig Association and is a board member of the Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance. His work helped raise the price of fish in Kodiak, Alaska so that fishermen can make a living on the Rockfish—a once-underutilized species and a favorite of Ryan’s. And through the Local Catch Network, he’s worked hard to connect members with Kodiak fishermen, adding value to their supply chains by giving underrepresented fishermen a fighting chance.
By the way, do you recognize the first photo? It's the inspiration for our logo! Ryan took it the first time he went fishing with Uncle Steve.
