The two latest Ler\u00f8y Aurora farms join three existing Ler\u00f8y certified operations, two certified Marine Harvest farms in Norway and Tassal\u2019s site in Australia. The number of ASC-certified salmon farms is now eight in total.<\/p>\n
An additional 11 farms in Norway, Australia, Canada and Chile are also awaiting the outcome of their assessments.<\/p>\n
At a joint ceremony hosted by Ler\u00f8y Seafood Group and classification society Bureau Veritas, which carried out the assessments, Gudrun Gunnarsdottir, quality coordinator, Ler\u00f8y Aurora, said: \u201cGaining certification against the ASC Salmon Standard provides the guarantee to our customers that our fish has been produced with minimal environmental and social impacts.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe market response since the launch of the ASC salmon programme has been phenomenal. I am pleased to see it continue growing. The rapid expansion secures the availability of ASC certified salmon, which means consumers can now enjoy responsibly farmed certified salmon globally,\u201d added Chris Ninnes, CEO, ASC. <\/p>\n
At the ceremony, the three Ler\u00f8y Aurora operations: \u00c5r\u00f8ya, Gourtesjohka and Solheim farms were presented with their official certificates. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Three more Ler\u00f8y Aurora farms have been certified against the Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) Salmon Standard and were awarded at the Seafood Expo Global last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6018,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-6017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6017","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=6017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6019,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6017\/revisions\/6019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6017"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=6017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}