{"id":5418,"date":"2021-03-08T10:58:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T10:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldfishing.nfdtesting.uk\/icefish-conference\/2021\/03\/08\/gaa-releases-bap-farm-standard-issue-30\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T23:53:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T22:53:53","slug":"gaa-releases-bap-farm-standard-issue-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/news\/aquaculture\/gaa-releases-bap-farm-standard-issue-30\/","title":{"rendered":"GAA releases BAP Farm Standard issue 3.0"},"content":{"rendered":"

The renamed Issue 3.0<\/a> replaces Issue 2.4 of the BAP Finfish and Crustacean Farm Standard and adds a number of new requirements under BAP\u2019s four pillars of sustainability \u2014 food safety, social accountability, environmental responsibility and animal welfare.<\/p>\n

The new standard covers all feed-fed finfish and crustacean species, including \u2018fed\u2019 mollusks such as abalone and sea cucumbers. A separate BAP Salmon Farm Standard covers salmonids raised in marine net pens and the BAP Mollusk Standard covers unfed mollusk species such as mussels, clams and oysters.<\/p>\n

The new standard is mandatory for new and re-certifying facilities with effect from 1 March 2022. It includes a ban on antimicrobials designated as critically important for human medicine, additional social accountability and wildlife protection clauses, clarity on metrics and specific consideration for environmental requirements for reservoir\/lake-based cage farms, recirculating aquaculture systems and coastal flow-through farms.<\/p>\n

An overview of the new standards is available by webinar on 11 March. To register visit the GAA website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Global Aquaculture Alliance has released the third version of its Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) Farm Standard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5419,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-5418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aquaculture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5420,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5418\/revisions\/5420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5418"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=5418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}