Dramm signs 100% Great Lakes Fish Pledge
Dramm has signed on to the “100% Great Lakes Fish Pledge,” publicly committing to using 100% of each commercially caught Great Lakes fish productively by 2025. As part of the pledge, the company will also help communicate to other companies in the fish supply chain about opportunities for innovative applications for fish byproducts including fertilizer, protein, marine collagen, leather, or other new, high-value products.
Twenty companies have now signed the pledge, which is part of the 100% Great Lakes Fish initiative created by the Conference of Great Lakes St. Lawrence Governors & Premiers (GSGP), an organization representing the governors of the Great Lakes states and the premiers of Ontario and Québec.
The Great Lakes are home to a sizable commercial fishery, but only the fillets of these fish are usually eaten, while the remaining 60% of the fish is often relegated to inexpensive uses or discarded.
The project and pledge are the first of its kind in the region. They build on the work Iceland pioneered with their “100% fish strategy” and with other species elsewhere globally. The utilization rate of the Icelandic cod has increased from 40%, when utilization was almost exclusively filets to eat, to more than 90%, including high-value byproducts such as skin and collagen. These byproducts are processed into a variety of food and non-food products, raising the value of each fish.
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