Full Program - seafood summit - Seafood Choices Alliance

DR. GEORGE LEONARD – Director of Aquaculture, Ocean Conservancy
PANEL: Innovative Aquaculture: Charting a Course Forward for Open Ocean Aquaculture
Dr. George Leonard’s goal as the Director of Aquaculture for Ocean Conservancy is to ensure that U.S.
aquaculture develops under strong environmental standards. In particular, his work is currently focused on
legislative activities surrounding the development of open ocean aquaculture in state and federal waters. For
the previous five years, he was the Senior Science Manager for Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch
program, where he was responsible for overseeing the research and analysis of capture fisheries and aquaculture
practices related to the development of sustainability recommendations for the public and businesses. These
recommendations were presented in the form of regional, wallet-sized pocket guides for consumers as well as
sourcing guidance for major seafood buyers.
Before joining Seafood Watch in early 2002, he was the Program Manager for COMPASS (the Communication
Partnership for Science and the Sea) where he helped communicate emerging marine conservation science to
policymakers, NGOs and resource managers.
KRISTOFOR LOFGREN – Owner, Bamboo Sushi
PANEL: Green Chefs, Blue Ocean: Building Culinary-Conservation Coalitions to Improve Seafood
Sustainability
Kristofor Lofgren, 26, is the creator and owner of Bamboo Sushi, the first certified, sustainable sushi restaurant
in the United States, located in Portland, Oregon. At 23, Lofgren co-founded the critically acclaimed Japanese
restaurant, Masu East, which he has managed successfully since 2007. Since receiving his undergraduate degree
from the University of California, Berkeley, Lofgren is now pursuing his M.B.A. in sustainable management
from the Presidio School of Management in San Francisco. As a dedicated “ecopreneur”, he views business as
the optimal platform to quickly affect widespread environmental change. Lofgren has always considered
Portland a second home, having come to visit family frequently over the last fifteen years. Therefore, it seemed
only natural when he made Portland his home two years ago. Lofgren has become increasingly impressed with
the high level of social and environmental awareness in the area. This, coupled with Portland’s wonderful and
burgeoning culinary scene made it the best choice for beginning such an innovative new venture. In creating
Bamboo Sushi, Lofgren hopes to educate consumers on the importance of making conscientious decisions
about their food choices and the direct impact those choices have on the health of our planet. Lofgren’s
ultimate goal is to develop a new model for sustainability in the restaurant industry – creating a system of
checks and balances to ensure transparency and accountability – which he hopes will be adopted by other
business owners, thereby achieving even greater change.
DUNCAN MACLEAN – Vice President, Half Moon Bay Fisherman’s Marketing Association
PANEL: Today’s Fisherman: purveyor, steward and advocate of wild fish
Born in Florida, Duncan MacLean grew up in San Diego, California and started fishing while attending
Sonoma State College as an Art Major. Currently, MacLean resides in El Granada, California - across the street
from Pillar Point Harbor. MacLean served as Vice President of Half Moon Bay Fishermen's Marketing
Association from 1987 thru 1994 and has been President since 1995. He has also been the California Salmon
Troll Advisor to the Pacific Fisheries Management Council since 1991, as well as a member of the Councils Ad
hoc Marine Reserve Committee from 2000 to 2005. MacLean has also been a member of the Pacific States
Marine Fisheries Commission's Tri-State Dungeness Crab Committee 1993 to 1997 and 2008 (current). He is
also on the board of Directors for Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations and the Alliance of
Communities for Sustainable Fisheries. He is the owner, operator, non-linear thinker of the fishing vessel
Barbara Faye. While MacLean fishes primarily for Pacific salmon (Washington, Oregon, California) and
Dungeness crab (California, Oregon), he has also fished for king crab in Alaska, albacore, sablefish, halibut, and
trawled for groundfish (California) over the course of his fishing career.
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