Summer 2022
Slow Fish North America receives funding to hire its first Network CoordinatorApril 2022
NAMA’s updated Strategic Plan is adopted.
March 2022
Don’t Cage Our Oceans sends a letter to the Biden Administration urging them to revoke a federal order to fast-track industrial aquaculture. More than 9 million individuals and 250,000 businesses across the country were represented, including 5,000 fishing businesses and 70,000 food producers.March 2021
Slow Fish 2021, a virtual gathering takes place, spanning two weekends. Speakers from around the world shared their expertise, struggles, stories, and hopes for the future. Attendees dove deep to talk about the seafood supply chain, Indigenous access to food sources, aquaculture, and more. Check out the full event report.
May 29, 2018 - July 29, 2018
May 1, 2018
NAMA and NFFC adopt the Shared Leadership ModelApril 14, 2018 - April 16, 2018
Slow Fish San Francisco takes place
March 10-12, 2016
Slow Fish New Orleans (NOLA) takes place2015
The Fish Locally Collaborative (FLC) launches the Know Your Fisherman campaign, aimed at amplifying small-to-mid-scale domestic commercial fishermen and their products. The campaign included a pledge from seafood buyers.
Spring 2016
The approved 2016 Strategic plan is implemented which built on the founding principles of NAMA, celebrated the victories and challenges of the 2008 strategic plan, and paved the way to fuel a real RevolOcean. This Strategic Plan laid out our Theory of Change. Out of our time at the 2016 strategic planning retreat with the board of trustees emerged a clear sense of the three roles that we play in the broader ecosystem within which we work: the birds, the bees, and the worms. These three roles – big picture viewing, pollinating, and fortifying – are our strengths as an organization, individual staff, and board of trustees. What sets us apart from others are our roles combined with our values, as we have restated and reframed in our new strategic plan, and our commitment to being servant leaders of the fishermen with whom we work. To read more about these unique roles, check out our How We Work.March 2013
NAMA attended the first US Food Sovereignty Alliance Assembly, putting out the terms “ocean grabs” and “fish grabs” at a combined USFSA/CMSC workshop.May 2013
The First international Slow Fish gathering happens in Genoa, Italy.February 2013
Who Fishes Matters Tour BeginsJanuary 2013
- The FLC has its first co-organizer meeting
- The Celebrate the Fruits of Our Ocean Campaign is launched in collaboration with Boston Collaborative for Food and Fitness.
December 2012
NAMA formally becomes a member of Food Solutions New England.November 2012
Began work with the On The Commons Project around protecting the ocean commonsSeptember 2012
- A delegation from within our networks is present at La Via Campesina
- Our first time supplying seafood to Farm Aid
- NAMA is included in a segment of America’s Heartland TV Show on Gloucester
August 2012
NAMA becomes partners with 1% for the PlanetJune 2012
- Presented on Community Supported Fisheries (CSFs) at Strategies for a New Economy Conference
- Collaborated with Why Hunger to include fisheries content in their website
1997
NAMA incorporated as an independent, non-profit organization
1995
NAMA is founded to gather diverse fishery stakeholders together and design a new approach to managing fisheries