Aquaculture

Maximising the financial, social and environmental benefits of seafood production

Aquaculture is the fastest-growing form of food production on earth. Potentially great news for employment as well as the environment…

Despite the low footprint compared to meat production, the waters are murky around aquaculture’s negative impacts on habitats, effects on wild stocks and threats to water quality.

Our goal is to create a sustainable aquaculture industry that provides healthy food with limited environmental impact, creating jobs and prosperity. Together with our partners, we focus on key practices such as maintaining a suitable aquatic farming system, preparing proper ponds and land and securing quality seed and feed.

Creating positive impact for people, planet and progress

Together with our partners, we’re working to develop sustainable business models, create positive on-the-ground impact and improve sector governance in key aquaculture-producing countries.

^“The Aquaculture Working Group helps us [understand our footprint] by providing a consistent calculator for aquaculture which didn’t exist before, and with learning from each other on how to collect, process and use the data.^”

Dr. Dominique Gautier –Sustainability Director, Seafresh Group

Our initiatives in aquaculture

We work in countries where the aquaculture sector has been established for centuries, as well as where there is potential and need for more locally farmed fish.

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