More than 400 aquaculture and seafood professionals from around the world will descend upon Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, next week for the Global Aquaculture Alliance’s annual GOAL (Global Outlook on Aquaculture Leadership) conference. GOAL 2015 will be held at the Four Seasons Vancouver from October 26 to 29. This is the first time since the
Congratulations to Brazil’s Camanor Produtos Marinhos Ltda., winner of this year’s Preferred Freezer Services Global Aquaculture Innovation & Leadership Award, the Global Aquaculture Alliance announced on Monday, Oct. 19. Camanor Director Werner Jost will accept the award for Camanor’s AquaScience® technology at GAA’s GOAL 2015 conference at the Four Seasons in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada,
The Global Aquaculture Alliance’s Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) third-party certification scheme intends to submit an application to the Global Sustainable Seafood Initiative (GSSI) following the launch of its Global Benchmark Tool at the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries conference in Vigo, Spain, on Oct. 8. “We applaud the Global
Congratulations to the six Global Aquaculture Alliance and Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) endorsers who were among the dozens of suppliers recognized by Sysco Corporation as part of its annual Sysco Supplier Excellence Awards. The six recipients are: • Devi Foods received the gold supplier award; the company is qualified to offer two-, three- and four-star
Marine Harvest Canada has successfully completed a pilot of the Best Aquaculture Practices’ (BAP) new group farm program, resulting in 11 of its salmon farm sites attaining BAP certification, the Global Aquaculture Alliance announced on Oct. 5. Located along the vast British Columbia coastline, the farm sites are the first set of sites to earn
The Global Aquaculture Alliance (GAA) is proud to announce that Bill Herzig is the recipient of this year’s GAA Lifetime Achievement Award. Herzig will accept the award during GAA’s GOAL 2015 conference at the Four Seasons Hotel in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on Thursday, Oct. 29. A champion of seafood sustainability, Herzig’s career in seafood
Two months ago, the Global Aquaculture Alliance announced the transition of its treasured publication, the Global Aquaculture Advocate, from print to digital. On Thursday, the brand new Advocate website, GAA Advocate, will be officially unveiled. Since 1998, the Global Aquaculture Advocate has been integral to GAA’s identity as a trusted source of information on responsible
Petuna Aquaculture Pty. Ltd.’s Atlantic salmon and ocean trout hatchery in East Devonport, Tasmania, has earned Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) certification, the Global Aquaculture Alliance announced in mid-September. The company’s Cressy hatchery is the world’s first multi-species hatchery to attain BAP certification. Also BAP certified are Petuna’s Table Head and Liberty Point Atlantic salmon and
Congratulations to Chile’s Multiexport Foods S.A., which is now eligible to offer three-star Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) salmon. BAP three-star status denotes that a product originates from a BAP-certified processing plant, farm and feed mill or hatchery. Multiexport’s Puerto Montt processing plant and eight of its farm sites in Chile’s Patagonia region, which earned BAP
Congratulations to Vitapro S.A., Peru’s first feed mill to attain Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) certification. The shrimp feed mill, which attained BAP certification in September, is located in Trujillo, Peru. Vitapro’s Inbalnor S.A. feed mill in Ecuador attained BAP certification in August. Both produce shrimp and fish feed under the Nicovita brand. Currently, there are
Following last month’s Vietnam Fisheries International Exhibition (Vietfish) in Ho Chi Minh City, representatives from the Global Aquaculture Alliance and its Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) division and The Sustainable Trade Initiative (IDH) visited a Grobest feed mill in Vietnam to discuss ways to collaborate with key GAA supporters. GAA and IDH are working together to
The Global Aquaculture Alliance’s Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) division in early September reinforced its commitment to responsible aquaculture with a revision to its website that dedicates separate webpages to program integrity. Within the new webpages are new documents and menu items, the release of which helps explain the lengths to which the third-party certification scheme
Birgitte Krogh-Poulsen is the newest member of the Global Aquaculture Alliance Standards Oversight Committee (SOC), the organization announced in early September. Krogh-Poulsen is an independent consultant for Poulsen Consulting, with more than 15 years of experience in international development work in Africa and Asia, specializing in child protection, elimination of child labor, forced labor and
Congratulations to GISIS, Ecuador’s first feed mill to attain Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) certification. It’s also South and Central America’s third feed mill, outside of Chile, to earn the distinction. The shrimp and tilapia feed mill is located in Durán, Ecuador. Shrimp and tilapia companies sourcing from BAP-certified hatcheries, farms and processing plants can now source
The Global Aquaculture Alliance’s Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) division has expanded its management team with the addition of Peter Carpenter as BAP certification manager, effective immediately. Carpenter comes to BAP with more than 30 years of seafood experience, most recently with Aqua Star. As BAP certification manager, Carpenter will provide full customer service to BAP-certified
Since 1998, the Global Aquaculture Advocate has been a trusted source of information on responsible aquaculture. It will continue to be for years to come with the October 2015 launch of a new Advocate website, featuring a variety of production-, supply- and market-related aquaculture news. The new Advocate website will blend the best of the
The Global Aquaculture Alliance’s Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) division is pleased to announce the addition of Bureau Veritas to its team of BAP-approved third-party certification bodies. In a service agreement between the two organizations, Bureau Veritas Vietnam will be the technical center managing all related activities of Bureau Veritas Network in auditing and certification for
China is the world’s leading aquaculture producer, and now one of the leading global aquaculture importers, as well. Although China’s shrimp-farming industry has been experiencing reduced output due to production problems, the industry is striving to improve itself through improved practices and policies. A team of Global Aquaculture Alliance representatives visited China in early August to