{"id":9572,"date":"2015-12-23T11:44:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T11:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldfishing.nfdtesting.uk\/icefish-conference\/2015\/12\/23\/mollusk-standards-available-for-public-comment\/"},"modified":"2015-12-23T11:44:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T11:44:00","slug":"mollusk-standards-available-for-public-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/news\/industry-news\/mollusk-standards-available-for-public-comment\/","title":{"rendered":"Mollusk standards available for public comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new standards will cover all major farmed mollusk species, including mussels, scallops, oysters, clams and abalone, and will replace the existing BAP mussel farm standards.<\/p>\n<p>The standards were prepared by the BAP mollusk technical committee, which is chaired by Brian Kingzett. The BAP Standards Oversight Committee &#8211; whose members represent a balance of stakeholders from industry, NGOs and academia &#8211; recommended refinements to the standards before approving them for release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll stakeholders are encouraged to participate in this public comment exercise so that the finished standards can benefit from the most broad-based input possible,\u201d said BAP standards coordinator, Dan Lee.<\/p>\n<p>All comments received during the public comment period are carefully considered for inclusion in the final documents and all properly submitted comments are acknowledged. To submit a comment, please <a class=\"__viper_selHighlight __viper_cleanOnly\" href=\"http:\/\/bap.gaalliance.org\/bap-standards\/bap-mollusk-farm-standards-comment-form\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) mollusk farm standards have been released for a 60-day public comment period, which ends on 5 February 2016,<\/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":[9],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-9572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9572","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=9572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9572"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=9572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}