The Global Aquaculture Alliance’s Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) third-party certification program has surpassed the 800-facility milestone.
Currently, more than 800 aquaculture facilities worldwide, including processing plants, farms, hatcheries and feed mills, are BAP certified. That’s up from 701 BAP-certified facilities as of 31 December 2014, and 648 BAP-certified facilities as of 31 December 2013.
Currently, the annual output from BAP-certified processing plants exceeds 1.6 million metric tons, up from just over 1.4 million metric tons as of 31 December 2014.
The number of companies offering two-star, three-star and four-star BAP product is also on the rise. Four-star BAP status denotes that the processing plants, farms, hatcheries and feed mills from which a group sources are BAP certified. It’s the highest such achievement in the BAP program.
