SFP – FishSource Aquaculture profiles
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What is it?
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership (SFP) is a US-registered nonprofit that operates globally to rebuild depleted fish stocks and reduce the environmental and social impacts of fishing and fish farming. The organization works by engaging fishery stakeholders and seafood businesses throughout the supply chain to promote the sustainable production of seafood.
- Regulatory Framework: The regulatory system addresses risks to and from aquaculture through a zonal approach to siting, licensing, and production management;
- Organized Producers Following a Code of Good Practice: The presence of an active producer organization representative of the whole industry and establishment of a Code of Good Practice;
- Water Quality Management: The impact of aquaculture on the quality of public water resources is managed;
- Disease Risk and Impact Reduction: Industry is protected from catastrophic losses through best practice disease management on farm and at the zone level; and,
- Marine Feed Ingredient Management: The fishmeal and oil in aquaculture feed are sourced from well-managed or improving fisheries.
- As a risk indicator of the overall use of marine ingredients in feed within an industry in a specific geography (Score 5 – Marine Feed Ingredient Management).
- Aquaculture trimmings used in compound aquaculture feed present an opportunity to reduce waste and contribute toward the circular economy. However, they pose their own set of potential impacts.
What is it?
FishSource Aquaculture is a publicly available online resource on the current management status of individual aquaculture industries and their adoption of a zonal approach to aquaculture.
This aims to ensure that the industry is operating within the assimilative carrying capacity of the water body and reduces cumulative risks from pollution and disease. If a zonal approach is being effectively implemented, it should, by nature of the management approach, minimize the potential impacts of an industry and improve its sustainability.
How to use it?
FishSource aquaculture scores provide users with simplified indicators of how aquaculture industries are adopting a zonal approach to management. In FishSource, the following principles are evaluated in aquaculture as a score out of ten:
The first two principle scores reflect the state of governance, while the last three communicate the status of management for key natural resources that the industry is dependent on.
These assessments can be used in two ways:
Therefore, the FishSource aquaculture profiles can be used to identify the risks involved in using this circular ingredient against the five principles outlined above.