Seafood Champion Awards

• Guidelines for Submitting Nominations
• Submit Your Nomination

Guidelines for Submitting Nominations

Nominations are now closed, stay tunned for the announcement of finalists and winners.

To download the nomination guidelines, click here.

Any individual, company or organization may submit nominations on their own behalf or on behalf of others, with no limit on the number of nominations submitted. Candidates may be nominated by others or may self-nominate.

Nominees may include individuals, companies or organizations from the fishing, aquaculture, seafood supply and distribution, retail, restaurant and foodservice sectors, as well as other stakeholders to the seafood industry such as conservation, academia and the media.

Recipients of a previous Seafood Champion Award may not be considered for a subsequent award within five years of receiving the initial award; in addition, past recipients must show demonstrable progress in further advancing seafood sustainability goals. Finalists or candidates from a past year may be considered anew for the current year.

Nominations should be accompanied by a detailed written description of the accomplishments of the nominee – keeping in mind the purpose and characteristics described above – and an explanation of why those accomplishments merit a Seafood Champion award. For example, nominations should explain:

• How the nominee has influenced others and/or served as a role model with regard to advancing the company or industry’s path towards sustainability;
• What a nominee has done to distinguish themselves among their peers in terms of expanding the marketplace for sustainable seafood; and
• Creative and innovative solutions the nominee has developed to promote seafood sustainability or address operational challenges.

Nominations will be limited in length to 700 words. Nominations submitted by mail, fax or email should not exceed 700 words (approximately one page) in length. Only complete nominations will be considered. Brief letters of endorsement or supporting materials (that cannot be included in online form) are welcome but not required.

All material/information submitted as part of the nomination process will be kept confidential. Candidates will only be informed of their nomination status in the interest of disclosure and in case they wish to provide information of their own (if not self-nominated). Pursuant to the selection committee’s (comprised of Alliance staff and a panel of independent reviewers) final determination, Seafood Choices will announce the 2010 finalists and award recipients.

Submit Your Nomination

Please submit your nomination using the online form >

Nominations are closed, please stay tunned for the announcement of Finalists and Winners.

If necessary, nominations will also be accepted by email, fax and mail, though we strongly encourage submissions via the online form.

In case of submission by email, fax or mail: Include the name of the person submitting the nomination and the name of the person or organization being nominated along with the two-page written justification (read the above guidelines carefully before composing and submitting your nomination). Be sure to provide contact information for both the nominator as well as the nominee, if different.

Email, with “2010 Seafood Champion Awards” in the subject line.
Fax: 301.495.4846
Mail: Seafood Choices Alliance, Attn: 2010 Seafood Champion Awards
8401 Colesville Road, Suite 500, Silver Spring, MD 20910 USA

Please direct media and other inquiries to Nadine Bartholomew directly via
email or 301.495.9570.