Aquaculture Stewardship Council

Short description: Organisation promoting and certifying sustainable aquaculture

For other uses, see Stewardship council.

The Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) is an independent non-profit organisation and labelling organization that establishes protocol on farmed seafood while ensuring sustainable aquaculture. The ASC provides producers with a certification of environmental sustainability and social responsibility.

The Aquaculture Stewardship Council was founded in 2010 by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the Dutch Sustainable Trade Initiative (IDH)[1][2] to manage and implement socially responsible aquaculture.[3]

## Contents

* 1 Personnel
* 2 Accreditation process
* 3 Certification
* 4 See also
* 5 Notes and references
* 6 External links

## Personnel

The current ASC CEO is Chris Ninnes.[4] In February 2016, Aldin Hilbrands, Meghan Jeans, Scott Nichols, and Ling Cao joined the ASC Supervisory Board.[5]

## Accreditation process

The ASC has standards for the 12 following species: abalone, bivalves (clams, mussels, oysters and scallops), freshwater trout, pangasius, salmon, seriola and cobia, shrimp, and tilapia.[6]

Several pre-competitive organizations are now using the rigorous ASC standards as a means to progress their industry towards more environmental sustainability and social responsibility: such as the Global Salmon Initiative (GSI, established in 2013); and the Sustainable Shrimp Partnership (SSP, launched in March 2018[7]) which operates in Ecuador.[8] The GSI member companies (representing over 50% of the world's global farmed salmon production) have pledged to have all their salmon farms ASC-certified by 2020.[9][improper synthesis?]

## Certification

In 2010, the ASC appointed the Accreditation Services International (ASI) to accredit and oversee certifiers of aquaculture businesses.[2]

The ASC certifies different species groups which includes Tilapia, Salmon, Pangasius, Bivalves, Cobia and Shrimp. In November 2017, a Seaweed Standard was also launched by the ASC together with the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC). Certified ASC products are now available around the world in Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Hungary, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.[10]

## See also

* Forest Stewardship Council
* Marine Stewardship Council
* Stewardship
* Aquaculture

## Notes and references

1. ↑ Gardiner, Beth (2010-10-27). "Finding a Sustainable Way to Farm the Seas" (in en-US). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/28/business/energy-environment/28iht-rbobfish.html.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Aquaculture Stewardship Council appoints independent accreditation agency" (in en). https://wwf.panda.org/wwf_news/?194990/Aquaculture-Stewardship-Council-appoints-independent-accreditation-agency.
3. ↑ "Aquaculture Stewardship Council appoints independent accreditation agency" (in en). https://wwf.panda.org/wwf_news/?194990/Aquaculture-Stewardship-Council-appoints-independent-accreditation-agency.
4. ↑ "Chris Ninnes". https://www.asc-aqua.org/team-member/nick/.
5. ↑ "ASC Appoints Four New Members to Supervisory Board". https://www.asc-aqua.org/news/latest-news/asc-appoints-four-new-members-to-supervisory-board/.
6. ↑ "Farm standards". https://www.asc-aqua.org/what-we-do/our-standards/farm-standards/.
7. ↑ "Home" (in en-US). https://www.sustainableshrimppartnership.org/.
8. ↑ White, Cliff. "With an eye on India, Ecuador launches Sustainable Shrimp Partnership". Seafood Source. https://www.seafoodsource.com/seafood-expo-north-america-2018/with-an-eye-on-india-ecuador-launches-sustainable-shrimp-partnership.
9. ↑ "ASC certification" (in en). https://globalsalmoninitiative.org/en/what-is-the-gsi-working-on/sustainability-certification-asc-standard/.
10. ↑ Aquaculture Stewardship Council. "Certification Update: April 2018". https://mailchi.mp/asc-aqua/xr162vrjvq-2118633?e=9ebd51a70d. Retrieved 15 December 2021.

## External links

* Official website: www.asc-aqua.org

Fisheries science and wild fisheries

| Fisheries science|

* Population dynamics of fisheries
* Shifting baseline
* Fish stock
* Fish mortality
* Condition index
* Stock assessment
* Fish measurement
* Standard weight in fish
* Fish counter
* Data storage tag
* Catch per unit effort
* Otolith microchemical analysis
* Biomass
* Fisheries acoustics
* Acoustic tag
* Coded wire tag
* GIS and aquatic science
* Pop-up satellite archival tag
* EcoSCOPE
* Age class structure
* Trophic level
* Trophic cascades
* Hydrographic containment
* Match/mismatch hypothesis
* Fisheries and climate change
* Marine biology
* Aquatic ecosystems
* Bioeconomics
* EconMult
* Ecopath
* FishBase
* Census of Marine Life
* OSTM
* Fisheries databases
* Institutes
* Fisheries scientists

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Wild fisheries|

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* Eel ladder
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* Migration
* Salmon run
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* Shoaling and schooling
* Marine habitats
* Marine snow
* Water column
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Fisheries management, sustainability and conservation

| Management|

* Fisheries management
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Quotas|

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Sustainability|

* Sustainable fisheries
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* Sustainable seafood
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* Destructive fishing practices
* Future of Marine Animal Populations
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* The End of the Line

Conservation|

* Marine Protected Area
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* Marine conservation
* Marine conservation activism
* Salmon conservation
* Grey nurse shark conservation
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Organisations|

* The Black Fish
* Marine Stewardship Council
* Aquaculture Stewardship Council
* Friend of the Sea
* SeaChoice
* Seafood Watch
* Ocean Conservancy
* Ocean Outcomes
* Oceana
* Sea Around Us Project
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* HERMIONE
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* Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
* Greenpeace
* National Marine Fisheries Service
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Related issues|

* CalCOFI
* Fish slaughter
* Marine pollution
* Mercury in fish
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* Shark finning
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