This Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) spotlight story features Yumbah Aquaculture, Australia’s largest privately owned aquaculture company that produces abalone, mussels, oysters and Yellowtail Kingfish. Yumbah currently has oyster farms and a processing plant certified to BAP standards. GSA: What inspired you to become involved in the seafood industry? Yumbah Aquaculture: At Yumbah, our inspiration comes
The Global Seafood Alliance (GSA) is pleased to announce the appointment of Libby Woodhatch, Executive Chair of MarinTrust, and Jeremy Woodrow, Executive Director of the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute (ASMI), to its Board of Directors. Woodhatch brings more than two decades of experience in the seafood supply chain and standards development. As Executive Chair of
This blog post features one of GSA’s Corporate Members, Veramaris. We thank Veramaris for their support of the work GSA does to advance responsible seafood practices. Global farmed shrimp production was projected to reach six million metric tons in 2025, according to Rabobank. This volume represents the industry’s exponential growth of 500% over the last five decades.
Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) is a third-party certification program developed by Global Seafood Alliance (GSA) that covers the entire farmed seafood production chain. The four star system is used to represent each piece of this chain, which includes the processing plant, farm, hatchery and feed mill. A four-star designation is the highest achievable for BAP-certified