ASC – Country Risk Scorecards
Global
What is it?
The Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) is an independent, international non-profit organization that manages a leading certification and labeling program for responsible aquaculture.
Together with their partners, they run a program to transform seafood farming globally and promote the best environmental and social aquaculture performance towards environmental sustainability and social responsibility.
- For assessing plant-based ingredients, it is the country in which the plant was produced or grown.
- For assessing marine ingredients, the flag state of the species caught is used. If the flag state is not known, use the fishing area to identify the possible flag state(s) and then select the country with the highest risk score.
What is it?
ASC Country Risk Scorecards are one of the pathways to demonstrate low risk in the sourcing of marine and plant-based ingredients in the ASC Feed Standard.
ASC Country Risk Scorecards are a tool that classifies different risk factors associated with the sourcing and use of aqua feed ingredients into low, medium, and high risk for the country of origin.
ASC Country Risk Scorecards are based on a range of datasets from multiple quality third-party indicators.
If the ASC Country Risk Scorecard pathway does not result in low risk for an ingredient, another pathway must be tried until low risk is achieved; otherwise, the mill cannot source from that supply chain (until low risk is achieved).