Fellowships

Fellowships offered for travel assistance

Deadline December 4th!

Seafood Choices Alliance, an international program of SeaWeb, is offering travel fellowships to attend the 2010 Seafood Summit. At the 2010 Seafood Summit, attendees will have the opportunity to participate in discussions, hear presentations, and network with conservation and business leaders from the seafood industry. Anyone is eligible to apply including:

• Media: reporters, editors, writers, freelance journalists, in print, broadcast or online
• Producers: small-scale and artisanal fishermen and fish farmers
• Employees of non-profit organizations
• Students
  

About the Seafood Summit

An annual event, the Seafood Summit brings together all facets of the
sustainable seafood industry. Now in its 8th year, this summit is internationally recognized as the forum that inspires productive dialogue between conservation groups, government officials and different sectors of the seafood industry, from retailers and suppliers to chefs and restaurateurs. Seafood Summit brings together global representatives with the goal of making the seafood marketplace environmentally, socially and economically sustainable. This year’s event will include panels, presentations and workshops on a variety of topics, including:

• Marine protected areas and catch shares - combining proven tools for a new generation of
  sustainable fisheries
• The Common Fisheries Policy: A reform to contribute to sustainability
• Seafood sustainability from a biological and carbon footprint perspective
• The perfect paper trail: Eliminating illegal fish from the supply chain
• Communicating sustainability: Coping with consumer confusion
  

For more information, visit www.seafoodsummit.org.

Application Process

Fellowship applications should be submitted to Seafood Choices Alliance by December 4, 2009 to SeafoodSummit@seafoodchoices.org, with “Fellowship Application” in the subject line. A limited number of fellowships are available, and may be partial or full fellowships; preference will be shown to applicants from under-represented and non-represented geographies. Fellowships, which will be applied to airfare and/or accommodation expenses, will be based on need, point of origin, and the ability of the individual or company represented to help defray costs. Interviews may be conducted to obtain additional information following application. Fellowship recipients will be announced mid December 2009.

To apply, please submit the following (total application not to exceed three pages):

• Full contact information.
• Brief CV or biography, including a description of how your work relates to seafood sustainability such as examples of your own efforts to improve sustainability at your business or through your organization. Media applicants should include concise descriptions of key seafood, fisheries or oceans coverage.
• Description (not to exceed one page) of why you would like to attend the summit and how your attendance would benefit your work or that of your organization. Media applicants should submit clips or samples of coverage (maximum of three), especially any relevant to the above issues, freelancers should include a list of publications that routinely publish their work and provide contact information or letters of interest from at least two outlets interested in news from the Summit.