The Global Aquaculture Alliance’s Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) division invites new auditor candidates and returning auditors requiring refresher training to attend a BAP auditor training course in Guayaquil, Ecuador, from Sept. 27 to Oct. 3, 2015. Click here for the Spanish version of the press release. The course is also open to industry observers, including
Congratulations to Clear Springs Foods, Inc. All of the U.S.-based company’s domestic rainbow trout farms recently attained Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) certification, the Global Aquaculture Alliance announced in early June. It’s the world’s first rainbow trout farms to earn BAP certification. Founded in 1966, Clear Springs Foods is the world’s largest freshwater rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)
The May release of the updated Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) standards for seafood processing and repacking plants will help protect program integrity due to the clearer and/or more rigorous treatment of drugs, supplier monitoring, social responsibility and multi-star traceability. As outlined in the Issue 4 processing plant standards, aquaculture drugs shall not be used unless
Congratulations to Cargill. Two of the company’s feed mills, Cargill de Honduras S. de R. L. and Cargill de Nicaragua S.A., recently earned Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) certification. The two feed mills are the first feed mills in Central America as well as Cargill’s first feed mills to attain BAP certification. The only other BAP-certified feed
Since its inception in 1997, The Global Aquaculture Alliance’s philosophy has been to proactively identify the challenges facing aquaculture and to implement practical solutions that lead to continual improvements over time. One such challenge is the use of antibiotics in aquaculture. Restrictions on antibiotic use are addressed in great detail in both the Best Aquaculture
The Global Aquaculture Alliance is pleased to announce that Steven Hart will be joining the organization as vice president of education and outreach, effective June 29. In his role, Hart will perform a range of functions involving communications, coordination, and program development and management. His responsibilities will include developing educational materials on responsible aquaculture practices,
Brakes Group, the United Kingdom’s largest wholesale food supplier, has committed to source only sustainable seafood, including product from Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP)-certified facilities, as part of the Sustainable Fish Cities pledge. By taking the pledge, Brakes agreed to a suite of actions that will ensure that all of its general-sale, own-brand seafood is sourced from
The Global Aquaculture Alliance’s Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) division has expanded its market development team with the addition of Chris Keller as BAP’s market development manager-retail for North America. Keller comes to BAP with more than 20 years of retail experience, most notably with Walmart Stores. While at Walmart for 15 years, Keller held numerous
China’s Progift is the world’s first hatchery, and the fifth facility overall, to enroll in the Global Aquaculture Alliance’s new iBAP program. Launched in February, the iBAP program — the “i” in “iBAP” represents “improvement”— is designed to provide assistance and encouragement to aquaculture facilities interested in pursuing Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) certification. Facilities that
The Global Aquaculture Alliance’s Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) third-party certification program has reached a milestone, surpassing the 800-facility mark. Currently, more than 800 aquaculture facilities worldwide — processing plants, farms, hatcheries and feed mills — are BAP certified. That’s up from 701 BAP-certified facilities as of Dec. 31, 2014, and 648 BAP-certified facilities as of
The Global Aquaculture Alliance is partnering with Preferred Freezer Services and the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth on a project to build a global database of aquaculture facilities, including processing plants, farms, hatcheries and feed mills. The project is championed and funded by John Galiher, CEO of Preferred Freezer Services, a member of the GAA board
The Global Aquaculture Alliance is accepting applications for the Preferred Freezer Services Global Aquaculture Innovation & Leadership Award, the organization announced on May 21. This is the third consecutive year that GAA has organized the competition and the second consecutive year that Preferred Freezer Services has sponsored the competition. Preferred Freezer Services is also a
Congratulations to St. Andrews S.A., the world’s first group to achieve two-star Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) status for mussels, the Global Aquaculture Alliance announced in mid-May. Two-star BAP status denotes that the processing plants and farms from which a group sources are BAP certified. St. Andrews is also Chile’s first mussel farm and second processing
The Global Aquaculture Alliance welcomes Norm Grant and Kent Inglis to the market development team of GAA’s Best Aquaculture Practices division. Grant and Inglis will act as business development manager for BAP in Australia and New Zealand, respectively. “We are very excited that Norm and Kent are joining GAA as it carries out its mission
Fresh Direct Group’s M&J Seafood — the UK’s largest seafood supplier — announced that it is to further its commitment to the Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) third-party certification program by adding 18 new four-star BAP prawn items to its product range. M&J Seafood has a strong history of seeking out responsible choices when sourcing seafood, and
Congratulations to Apex Frozen Foods Pvt. Ltd., India’s fourth group to achieve four-star Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) status for shrimp since early April, the Global Aquaculture Alliance announced in early May. Four-star BAP status denotes that the processing plants, farms, hatcheries and feed mills from which a group sources are BAP certified. It’s the highest
China’s God Bless Tilapia Bao Fang Farm is Asia’s first aquaculture operation, and the third worldwide, to enroll in the Global Aquaculture Alliance’s new iBAP program. Launched in February, the iBAP program — the “i” in “iBAP” represents “improvement”— is designed to provide assistance and encouragement to aquaculture facilities interested in pursuing Best Aquaculture Practices
Dr. Everett Barnes Jr. of RMC Research Corporation and Dr. Michael Tlusty of the New England Aquarium have joined the board of directors of the Responsible Aquaculture Foundation (RAF), the educational arm of the Global Aquaculture Alliance (GAA). Barnes is president and owner of RMC Research Corporation, a private government consulting company he joined in