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Regal Springs Sustainability Presentation

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Sustainability, for a business like Regal Springs, is about managing the delicate balance between the social and economic needs of our communities and customers, with the environmental requirements of the natural resources that provide us our revenues.

Fresco and Kroonenberg best defined sustainability in 1992:

"All attempts to define sustainability rest upon a fundamental understanding that the environmental, social and economic components of any system are inextricably bound together and ultimately dependent on one an other."

 “We take sustainability very seriously, it’s our religion,” quoted straight from the directors of the organization.  That’s why Regal chose to play an active role in the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) steering committee (made up of top tilapia aquafarmers) to draft standards for certifying tilapia aquaculture products.  These standards, Tilapia Aquaculture Dialogue, are now in review and will begin certification in mid 2009.  Safe Quality Food(SQF) and the Food Marketing Institute(FMI) will be focussed on the food safety certification and Social Accountability International(SAI) will be certifying the social aspects of tilapia aquafarming.

Social Sustainability

Regal Springs gives back ten percent of production capacity to the local communities to support:

Social sustainability
  • Education: school books and school supplies for educating both children and adults
  • Health: healthcare, ambulances, and medicines
  • Housing: new homes and electricity brought into community
  • Clean Water: clean drinking water, desperately needed in some areas
  • Recreation: lighted soccer fields 

Economic Sustainability

  • Regal provides 5,000 direct jobs for much of the community and estimated 20,000 indirect incomes for the livelihood of others.
  • Regal provides long-term income from a renewable resource of fish farming.
  • Regal provides much needed jobs and economic activity in underdeveloped rural areas, outside of major metropolitan areas. 
  • Regal provides Internet access to rural communities and brings in much need infrastructure including security, schools and health care.

Environmental Sustainability

Tilapia Farm
  • “Fish for Trees Program” reduces deforestation and erosion and has brought back the natural balance of nature.
  • Regal’s OceanChill™ brand reduces the carbon footprint by shipping fresh fillets by boat rather than air.
  • 100% of the fish processing waste is recycled into fishmeal and fish oil.
  • Regal Springs is a net (zero) user of fishmeal, more fishmeal and fish oil is produced in the recycling plant than Regal uses.
  • Fishnol, Regal-made biodiesel, runs all trucks, machinery, and electricity.