Organization:Aquaculture Stewardship Council
The Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) is an independent non-profit organisation and labelling organization that establishes protocol on farmed seafood while ensuring sustainable aquaculture. The ASC provides producers with a certification of environmental sustainability and social responsibility.
The Aquaculture Stewardship Council was founded in 2010 by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the Dutch Sustainable Trade Initiative (IDH) [1] [2] to manage and implement socially responsible aquaculture.[3]
Personnel
The current ASC CEO is Chris Ninnes.[4] In February 2016, Aldin Hilbrands, Meghan Jeans, Scott Nichols, and Ling Cao joined the ASC Supervisory Board.[5]
Accreditation process
The ASC has standards for the 12 following species: abalone, bivalves (clams, mussels, oysters and scallops), freshwater trout, pangasius, salmon, seriola and cobia, shrimp, and tilapia.[6]
Several pre-competitive organizations are now using the rigorous ASC standards as a means to progress their industry towards more environmental sustainability and social responsibility: such as the Global Salmon Initiative (GSI, established in 2013); and the Sustainable Shrimp Partnership (SSP, launched in March 2018[7]) which operates in Ecuador.[8] The GSI member companies (representing over 50% of the world's global farmed salmon production) have pledge to have all their salmon farms ASC-certified by 2020.[9][improper synthesis?]
Certification
In 2010, the ASC appointed the Accreditation Services International (ASI) to accredit and oversee certifiers of aquaculture businesses.[2]
The ASC covers certifies different species groups which includes Tilapia, Salmon, Pangasius, Bivalves, Cobia and Shrimp. In November 2017, a Seaweed Standard was also launched by the ASC together with the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC). Certified ASC products are now available around the world in Austria, Belgium, Canada , Czech Republic, Denmark , Finland , France , Germany , Italy, Hungary, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway , Slovenia, Spain , Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom .[10]
See also
- Forest Stewardship Council
- Marine Stewardship Council
- Stewardship
- Aquaculture
Notes and references
- ↑ Gardiner, Beth (2010-10-27). "Finding a Sustainable Way to Farm the Seas" (in en-US). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/28/business/energy-environment/28iht-rbobfish.html.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Aquaculture Stewardship Council appoints independent accreditation agency" (in en). https://wwf.panda.org/wwf_news/?194990/Aquaculture-Stewardship-Council-appoints-independent-accreditation-agency.
- ↑ "Aquaculture Stewardship Council appoints independent accreditation agency" (in en). https://wwf.panda.org/wwf_news/?194990/Aquaculture-Stewardship-Council-appoints-independent-accreditation-agency.
- ↑ "Chris Ninnes". https://www.asc-aqua.org/team-member/nick/.
- ↑ "ASC Appoints Four New Members to Supervisory Board". https://www.asc-aqua.org/news/latest-news/asc-appoints-four-new-members-to-supervisory-board/.
- ↑ "Farm standards". https://www.asc-aqua.org/what-we-do/our-standards/farm-standards/.
- ↑ "Home" (in en-US). https://www.sustainableshrimppartnership.org/.
- ↑ White, Cliff. "With an eye on India, Ecuador launches Sustainable Shrimp Partnership". Seafood Source. https://www.seafoodsource.com/seafood-expo-north-america-2018/with-an-eye-on-india-ecuador-launches-sustainable-shrimp-partnership.
- ↑ "ASC certification" (in en). https://globalsalmoninitiative.org/en/what-is-the-gsi-working-on/sustainability-certification-asc-standard/.
- ↑ Aquaculture Stewardship Council. "Certification Update: April 2018". https://mailchi.mp/asc-aqua/xr162vrjvq-2118633?e=9ebd51a70d. Retrieved 15 December 2021.
External links
- Official website: www.asc-aqua.org
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