Editorial Mission
The Responsible Seafood Advocate supports the Global Seafood Alliance’s (GSA) mission by covering a dynamic and evolving industry with objectivity and integrity and by providing timely, insightful and accurate information from journalists, researchers and other industry experts. The Advocate appeals to industry professionals, academics, government officials, non-governmental organizations and representatives from the global food marketplace seeking insights about responsible seafood production.
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Contact the Advocate
Responsible Seafood Advocate
Global Seafood Alliance
85 New Hampshire Ave., Ste. 200
Portsmouth, NH 03801 USA
+1 (603) 317-5073
editor@globalseafood.org
Advocate Editorial Staff
Jamie Wright
Veteran seafood industry journalist Jamie Wright oversees the editorial coverage on the Responsible Seafood Advocate. He has been covering the seafood industry since 1999, notably at SeaFood Business magazine and SeafoodSource.com and now the Advocate. Jamie has presented and moderated panel discussions at many prominent industry conferences, including GOAL (2015 through 2022), Fish 2.0, Seafood Expo North America (2007 to 2015), the SeaWeb Seafood Summit (2015 and 2016) and the Maine Fishermen’s Forum (2013). He also moderated a fisheries-focused gubernatorial debate in the state of Maine in 2018. Jamie is a UMaine alum and a graduate of the National Fisheries Institute’s Future Leaders program (2008).
Darryl E. Jory, Ph.D.
Darryl E. Jory, Ph.D. is an aquatic biologist and businessman with more than 35 years of experience in aqua- and agribusiness development, production management and support, R&D and academics. He is an experienced aquaculture researcher, commercial aquaculture facility developer, manager and consultant. Jory, the Editor Emeritus, has been affiliated with GSA since its inception in 1997. He is also an adjunct professor of aquaculture at the University of Miami, Rosenstiel Graduate School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, Coral Gables, Fla.
Advocate Editorial Policies
- Advocate articles may serve to promote the work and goals of GSA, but are not required to; news and feature articles can explore the work of organizations outside of GSA.
- Advocate articles will not promote any one company or organization, product or technology for sales and marketing purposes.
- Advocate editorial coverage cannot be purchased. GSA members may approach the Advocate with story ideas; the Editorial Manager determines appropriate coverage.
- All summarized articles that were first published in other established scientific journals are done so with the permission of both the author and the publication; Advocate articles provide links to all original publications.
Submission Guidelines for Technical Papers
If you would like to see your research work published in the Advocate, please adhere to the following submission guidelines:
- Articles should be roughly 1,000 words; longer articles are considered but may be split into multiple parts.
- All articles must have one (1) lead author; other contributors will be listed as co-authors; please limit the number of authors to eight (8).
- Include complete contact information for the lead author (name, title, affiliation, email, phone number, mailing address, social media) and full names and titles of all co-authors.
- Please send at least one (1) digital photograph pertinent to the text and send as a separate file in a common format like jpg. High-resolution images (files 1 MB in size or larger) are preferred but not necessary.
- All tables and figures should be placed at the end of the file, one per page. Please send any relevant raw data in spreadsheet.
- Literature citations are not needed.
Republishing Advocate Content
To all other online outlets that wish to use Advocate content on their sites, we ask that you adhere to the following guidelines:
- All articles must link back to the original Advocate article page on the Responsible Seafood Advocate.
- All articles must include the Responsible Seafood Advocate title somewhere on the page, and include the author’s byline.
- We ask that you do not include the entire article on your page, only a summary or the first few paragraphs, with a link encouraging readers to visit the Responsible Seafood Advocate website.