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World Oceans Day: Fighting Ghost Gear and Plastic Waste
This Saturday people around the globe will come together to celebrate World Oceans Day, the annual observation to help protect and conserve the world’s oceans for a better future. A healthy world ocean is critical to our survival. Oceans cover three quarters of the Earth’s surface, and contain 97 per cent of the Earth’s water. […]
The current state of sea lice management
By Ron Tardiff, Science and Standards Intern In order for ASC to determine whether to revise sea lice management indicators in the Salmon Standard, it is helpful to have an understanding of the baseline requirements in each salmon producing country and then reflect on the current ASC requirements to assess if a revision is needed. […]
Earth Day and Easter
It’s fair to say that many people around the world will have a busy weekend of travelling and seeing family coming up. Passover begins on Friday, while many countries will be enjoying a long weekend for Easter. So you’d be forgiven for forgetting about another special event happening this Monday – Earth Day, an international […]
Pacific Reef Fisheries’ Environmental Officer discusses certification and the many ways to enjoy cobia
One of the companies that’s been celebrating Sustainable Seafood Week in Australia is Pacific Reef Fisheries. Based in the small town of Ayr, Queensland, Pacific Reef Fisheries is the first cobia and prawn farm in Australian to be ASC certified. We spoke to Kristian Mulholland, their Environmental Officer, about the benefits of certification, the future […]
How does ASC measure its impact? An introduction to Monitoring and Evaluation
ASC’s mission is to “transform aquaculture towards environmental sustainability and social responsibility”. Having a well-defined mission is so important – but it’s not enough on its own. Because if we want to keep improving our own performance, we need to know how far we’ve come in achieving that mission. By Douglas Tenison-Collins As with any […]
A day in the life … Meet Vân Roetert, our head of Programme Assurance
Four years ago, Vietnamese-born Vân Roetert joined the ASC, and in May last year she set up our programme assurance team to ensure that integrity was at the forefront of ASC’s agenda. We caught up with her to find out more about the work of her department. By Nicki Holmyard “Sustainability certification is a complex business […]
A day in the life – meet Janneke Aelen our Standards Coordinator
Dutch born Janneke Aelen is one of our latest recruits and started working with ASC in October 2018 as a standards coordinator in the Standards and Science team. By Nicki Holmyard “I was hired to work on fish welfare issues, and feel extremely lucky to have landed this job, which makes best use of my background […]
ASC salmon is a responsible and climate-friendly choice
Today is the kick-off of the Think Fish Week in France. A campaign week in which we want to make French consumers aware that they have the choice to buy sustainable and responsible seafood, by choosing fish with an ASC or MSC label. This way you contribute to a healthy future of our oceans, lakes […]
An introduction to the Programme assurance team
In September 2018 I joined the ASC Programme Assurance (PA) team as an intern, and now that I’m acquainted with the many activities of ASC’s newest team I thought I’d give you all a taste of what we’re up to. By Olaf Kattenpoel Oude Heerink The PA team is charged with a wide variety […]
Aquaculture – a practice with an ancient past
Aquaculture is sometimes referred to as a young industry – and while it’s true that as an industry it has really started to expand in the last three decades, the practice of farming fish has been around a lot longer than you might think – possibly even eight thousand years. Written by Jack Cutforth If you […]