{"id":9484,"date":"2015-10-29T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldfishing.nfdtesting.uk\/icefish-conference\/2015\/10\/29\/wa-opts-for-asc-certification\/"},"modified":"2015-10-29T12:30:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T12:30:00","slug":"wa-opts-for-asc-certification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/news\/aquaculture\/wa-opts-for-asc-certification\/","title":{"rendered":"WA opts for ASC certification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Sustainability in our seafood sector is a key priority for us,&#8221; said Fisheries Minister Ken Baston. &#8220;The ASC applies a third-party certification system, meaning that certification of fish farms and fish product suppliers will be done by independent certifiers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For our wild-capture fisheries, WA has embraced independent sustainability certification through the Marine Stewardship Council and has been supporting our commercial fisheries to undertake the necessary assessments.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have also been moving to expand aquaculture opportunities in the State and the ASC has a metrics based and transparent assessment program.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chris Ninnes, ASC&#8217;s chief executive officer, said the Western Australian Government had shown great leadership in its commitment to a sustainable seafood industry, and that he was delighted the ASC certification program was chosen as independent verification of the responsible management of the State&#8217;s aquaculture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Western Australian Government has chosen the Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) as the standard of choice for certifying the performance of aquaculture producers in the State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-9484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aquaculture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9484","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=9484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9484"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=9484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}