Ocean Trust

Ocean Trust has distinguished itself with award-winning projects to enhance fisheries, wildlife and the marine environment. We are committed to partnership building with seafood producers and conservationists, and to positive, results-oriented projects that help sustain the oceans and coastal communities that are dependent on the sea. Ocean Trust monitors the status of global fisheries reviewing detailed management and status reports from appropriate science authorities to keep its members up-to-date on major stock status issues related to seafood sustainability. Ocean Trust is headed by Thor Lassen educated in environmental and marine science at the University of Virginia and Virginia Institute of Marine Science, and honored nationally as a NOAA Fisheries 2004 Environmental Hero and Seafood Business magazine?s 2000 Person of the Year in recognition of restoration partnerships he established between private sector, government and conservation interests.