tami weiss

It’s officially here! All my hard work this summer has come together in one report that was printed and announced yesterday! Without a Trace II: An Updated Summary of Traceability Efforts in the Seafood Industry can be downloaded using that link or on this page. It’s an expanded (50 pages, to be exact) version of […]

Another blog, this time about the 30th session of COFI and a new award aimed at deterring Illegal, Unregulated and Unreported Fishing.

Seabright Beach, just down the block from the office.

I wrote a guest post for the FishWise blog! My post was a review of the journal article entitled “Global Cooperation among Diverse Organizations to Reduce Illegal Fishing in the Southern Ocean.” As it turns out, collaboration between diverse organizations can go a long way toward addressing international governance issues. In fact, the authors ended by […]

So what exactly is FishWise? And more importantly why would someone want to be fish wise? According to their website “FishWise  is non-profit organization that promotes the health and recovery of ocean ecosystems by providing innovative market-based tools to the seafood industry.” In normal English, that means that FishWise works with seafood businesses to help […]

Just another day in the office… My favorite thing about the FishWise offices (other than it’s proximity to the beach) is that it’s full of plants! While the angle of this shot doesn’t quite capture that, from where I’m sitting right now I see no less than 12 plants in this part of the office […]

First day in the office! This summer I’ll be working on seafood traceability with FishWise, an organization based in Santa Cruz.