Northern Harvest Sea Farms Group has become the world’s first salmon company to achieve four-star Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) status.
This means that the Canadian company’s salmon processing plants, farm sites, hatcheries and feed mills are all now BAP certified.
Northern Harvest Smolt Limited is the first salmon hatchery to earn BAP certification since new BAP hatchery standards for finfish, crustaceans and mollusks were completed in September - previously, BAP hatchery standards existed only for shrimp.
Larry Ingalls, company president, said the achievement is a direct reflection of the commitment that Northern Harvest management and employees have toward sustainability. “Our employees and their families live in the same areas where we operate,” he said. “We eat the products we produce and we are all committed to ensuring the long term viability of our operations as well as environmental sustainability. We have proven once again that being a small, family-owned operation does not mean we cannot be a global industry leader.”
Northern Harvest Sea Farms’ processing plant, marine sites, and Skretting Canada feed mill in Bayside, New Brunswick, had previously attained BAP certification in October 2012. Additionally, Northern Harvest’s Bar Island site was Atlantic Canada’s first BAP-certified salmon farm. With the certification of Northern Harvest Smolt Limited hatchery, Northern Harvest Sea Farms is the world’s only four-star BAP certified salmon aquaculture company.
