The first crawfish processing plant has been added to the Global Aquaculture Alliance’s BAP programme.
Xuzhou Jinjiangfoodstuffs Co Ltd is located in Pizhou City, Jiangsu and processes cooked crawfish tail meat which is frozen export mainly to the United States.
“The Global Aquaculture Alliance (GAA) is thrilled to partner with Bernard’s Seafood to help bring BAP certification to crawfish and to help the company source farmed seafood responsibly,” said Chris Keller, BAP director of market development in the Americas.
With the certification of Xuzhou Jinjiangfoodstuffs, there are now 14 types of farmed seafood represented in the BAP programme including shrimp, steelhead trout and tilapia.
Arctic charr was also recently added to the BAP programme, with the certification of a processing plant in Iceland.
BAP is a third-party certification programme with standards encompassing environmental responsibility, social responsibility, food safety, animal health and welfare and traceability.
Currently, there are more than 1,600 BAP-certified facilities worldwide.
