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Video: A fishy donation

Published 3:00 am Saturday, November 9, 2019

By Michael Penn

Chris Shapp, left, and Dave Lefebvre, center, of the Southeast Alaska Food Bank, stand with Jim Harmon, executive director of SeaShare, on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019. Seashare donated a 40-foot freezer van and 20,000 pounds of seafood to the foodbank. SeaShare is a nonprofit founded in 1994 to help the seafood industry donate to hunger-relief efforts. The effort has prevented 5 million pounds of bycatch over 25 years from being dumped back into the ocean. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)

Chris Shapp, left, and Dave Lefebvre, center, of the Southeast Alaska Food Bank, stand with Jim Harmon, executive director of SeaShare, on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019. Seashare donated a 40-foot freezer van and 20,000 pounds of seafood to the foodbank. SeaShare is a nonprofit founded in 1994 to help the seafood industry donate to hunger-relief efforts. The effort has prevented 5 million pounds of bycatch over 25 years from being dumped back into the ocean. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)

Southeast Alaska Food Bank received a fishy donation this week — 20,000 pounds of fish and seafood, to be exact.

The Empire was there for the delivery of the donation from SeaShare, a nonprofit that assists the seafood industry in donating to hunger-relief efforts. The organization has prevented 5 million pounds of bycatch over 25 years from being dumped back into the ocean.

Learn more about the donation by watching the video above.

• Contact staff photographer Michael Penn at mpenn@juneauempire.com. Follow our Instagram at @Juneau.Life.

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