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