Gulf Partnership News Magazine

TAKE THE PLEDGE

Is it the real deal?

Do you own a restaurant or fish market that sells fresh Florida grouper and/or snapper? If so, you are undoubtedly aware of the on-going controversy over unscrupulous businessmen selling imported or farmed fish and labeling it as fresh grouper or snapper. This practice hurts all of us who fish for or buy and sell these products. Giving consumers a lesser grade of fish while charging them for fresh high quality fish is not going to generate any future sales of grouper or snapper but is highly likely to have the opposite effect. Also, substituting a lesser grade of fish is not only dishonest, it is illegal.

If you proudly serve fresh caught Florida grouper or snapper, we encourage you to "Take the Pledge". You can download the graphics in high resolution format (.pdf, .bmp and .tif) from us and use them in any of your menus or advertising in any way you see fit. We will also promote your restaurant or retail store (at no charge) here on our site. We ask only two small things in return.

• One is that you notify us at thepledge@gulfpartnership.us that you are going to take part in this program.
• Two is that you indeed adhere to the simple guideline stated in the pledge. Everything that you label grouper or snapper will indeed be fresh wild caught domestic grouper or snapper. You are free to offer other fish on the menu beside these selections, we only ask that you be honest in labeling what you serve.

Download zip file with all artwork.
Download self extracting archive with all artwork.

We are planning on making some window or door stickers like the artwork we have here to download. When we get them made we will distribute them to anyone who has notified us that they want to take part in the program. We will also be posting a page over on the Southern Offshore Fishing Association site where we will prominently display banner ads for every restaurant or fish market that has "Taken the Pledge." We will also use the small banner ads in a random rotation to display on the S.O.F.A. home page and other pages (see example below).