Aquaculture

Promoting transparency and verifiable performance

ASC believes that key stakeholders, governments, financial institutions, and investors will increasingly require that SDG performance is third-party audited and transparent, to provide high quality data assurance. (Image source: Adobe Stock)

The Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) has released a report that looks at how responsible aquaculture can contribute to the United Nation’s (UN’s) 17 Global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and also develops a methodology to quantify how ASC verifiably contributes to these goals

SFA and INVE Aquaculture sign MOU to develop hatchery technology centre

The centre will also serve as a training hub for farmers to help build up a consistent supply of good quality fish fry for production. (Image source: Adobe Stock)

On 30 November, the Singapore Food Agency (SFA) and INVE Aquaculture, a benchmark company, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to jointly set up SFA-INVE Hatchery Technology Centre at SFA’s Marine Aquaculture Centre (MAC)

ASC announces version 1.4 of its Salmon Standard

Salmonid fish (Image source: Adobe stock)

Following a rigorous science-based review process, the Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) has updated its Salmon Standard and published version 1.4

BASF’s solution increases the durability of fishing pontoons

Floating pontoons interconnected by plastic walkways act as enclosures to raise seafood like shrimp, oysters, and fish. (Image source: BASF)

BASF, a German multinational chemical company has supplied the light stabiliser Tinuvin to Fujian Atlantis Plastic Products Co. Ltd., a company specialising in the production and processing of plastic products for marine floats, to protect polypropylene (PP) pontoons used by fish farmers in Ningde, Fujian Province of China