A new international association for women in the seafood industry -- WSI -- officially launched in December.
The group's goals are to highlight women’s contribution to the seafood industry, to raise awareness of gender issues within this industry and to promote professional equality between men and women.
WSI will make its first public appearance at the World Seafood Congress 2017 and the Icelandic Fisheries Fair in September in Iceland.
"The choice for Iceland is two-fold: its fishing industry is very dynamic and the country is at the forefront when it comes to gender equality," said Marie Christine Monfort, president and co-founder of WSI.
The motivation to create WSI came from the growing recognition that although one in every two seafood workers is a woman, women are over-represented in lowest paid and lowest valued positions and very few at leadership positions, the group said.
