100+ PARTNERS ARE working towards a THRIVING blue economy in OREGON.

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The Environment

Across the globe, consumers are making more conscientious food choices to reduce their carbon footprint. Oregon’s food industries have a special opportunity to support this trend by increasing the availability of local foods, saving the atmosphere from the carbon cost of food transportation.

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Public Health

Food is a primary component of nearly every social determinant of health. Eating local seafood brings food security to rural communities, builds community resilience, reconnects communities to the high quality food just off our coast, and ensures high levels of food safety.

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Economic Development

Oregon coast visitors spend about $840,000,000 on food stores and food services annually, contributing tremendous amounts of new money to our local economies each year. Even just a 10% increase in local seafood usage on the Oregon Coast would generate an additional $90 million for local economies.

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Human Rights

Does the seafood on your plate carry a legacy of human rights abuses? Seafood imported from overseas has been linked to labor abuse, human trafficking, and illegal fishing practices. Eating Oregon seafood is the best way to know that no one was harmed in the making of your meal.

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Past & Present Partners

These past and present partners have collaborated, provided or received services, funding, or otherwise contributed to our economic development activities.

    • Columbia Pacific EDD

    • Economic Development Council of Tillamook County

    • Economic Development Alliance of Lincoln County

    • South Coast Development Council

    • Oregon Department of Agriculture

    • Ports of Bandon, Garibaldi, Port Orford, Toledo 

    • Business Oregon

    • Oregon Trawl Commission 

    • Oregon Tuna Commission 

    • Oregon Dungeness Crab Commission

    • Southern Oregon - Workforce Investment Board  

    • Northwest Oregon Works  

    • Oregon Coast Community College, Aquarium Science Program  

    • Southwestern Oregon Community College  (Oregon Coast Culinary Institute) 

    • Lane Workforce Partners

    • Oregon Sea Grant

    • OSU Food Innovation Center

    • OSU Seafood Lab

    • Coastal Oregon Marine Experimentation Station

    • Clatskanie Farmers Market  

    • North Coast Food Web   

    • Central Coast Food Web

    • Port Orford Sustainable Seafood  

    • The Yaquina Lab  

    • Tre Fin Seafoods  

    • Bornstein Seafoods

    • The Salmonberry

    • Buoy Beer

    • Offshore Grill

    • Pacific Restaurant

    • EVOO Dining Cannon Beach

    • Wild Manzanita Cafe & Grocery

    • The Schooner Restaurant & Lounge

    • Catalyst Seafood Restaurant

    • Redfish Restaurant

    • Local Ocean

    • Garibaldi Charters

    • Portside Bistro

    • Chester's Markets

    • Ole Bob's Seafood

    • Helvetia Market

    • Little Fish Market

    • The Spot

    • Port Orford Sustainable Seafood

    • Clausen’s

    • Chelsea Rose Seafood

    • Bornstein Seafoods

    • Ocean Beauty Seafoods

    • Pacific Seafoods

    • Barnacle Bill’s Seafood Market

    • South Beach Fish Market

    • Chuck’s Seafood Market

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