Aquaculture Stewardship Council

• Pacific Seafood, provider of the healthiest protein on the planet, released its seventh annual Corporate Social Responsibility Report , “Beneath the Surface.” This year’s report emphasizes Pacific Seafood’s commitments to sustainable seafood, environmental responsibilities, value creation and quality, as well as efforts to support communities and team members.
• Bycatch Reduction Measures – By partnering with independent observers and utilizing various excluder devices, Pacific Seafood significantly reduced bycatch, protecting vulnerable species.
• World Oceans Day – Through Pacific Seafood’s World Oceans Day initiative, Pacific Seafood team members prevented 5,213 pounds of debris from entering the oceans and various waterways.
• National Seafood Month – Pacific Seafood team members celebrated October’s National Seafood Month by partnering with food banks, schools, and community organizations to make seafood more accessible to local community members.

• To celebrate the expansion of ArkA's fresh, frozen and smoked salmon products to U.S. fine dining and retailers, Multi X hosted a special tasting experience for attendees during the Seafood Expo North America (SENA), March 10-12, 2024, at booth #841.
• ArkA's salmon products are ABF certified, Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) certified, and Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) 4 Star certified.
• There is a need in fine dining for ultra-premium, antibiotic-free Antarctic salmon and Arka is the solution.
• Other products from the Multi X family including Multi X Lightly Smoked Salmon, Latitude 45 Smoked Salmon Candy Bites and Latitude 45 Smoked Chipotle Salmon, were featured in SENA's New Product Showcase, in a sampling at the Sand Bar, and at the Multi X booth throughout the three-day event.

• You’re in the supermarket freezer aisle trying to make sense of the different labels on seafood products.
• You know the oceans are in trouble and you’re trying to do the right thing, but the information is confusing and seemingly contradictory.

Making sense of salmon sustainability

• Both wild-caught and farmed salmon can be sustainable, but determining the environmental impact of a fillet isn’t simple.
• Many certification schemes, eco-labels, rankings and guides exist to signpost salmon sustainability.
• Other seafood sustainability schemes offer some assurances of sustainability, but are often not nearly as rigorous.
• According to fish conservation charity WildFish, some badges of sustainability in salmon aquaculture can mask details of unregulated salmon supply chains – with certifications rarely being lost even when conditions are breached.
• In terms of wild-caught salmon, it is our strong opinion that it is never legitimate, under any circumstances, to call it organic.

Which salmon should you buy?

When buying salmon or ordering it at a restaurant, look for key information on the labels or ask staff about the sourcing of their fish.
How, and from where, was it caught or farmed? Either can be sustainable, but the devil is in the detail.
If farmed, what was it fed – and from where did this feed originate? The feed should be from a sustainable source of fish, and perhaps even certified itself.
If wild-caught, is there minimal by-catch associated with it?
Which species of salmon is it? Whether Atlantic, chinook, sockeye, pink, coho or chum, sustainability depends on a variety of factors so there is no hard-and-fast rule. But there are better and worse options: this guide from Seafood Watch is very useful.
Which eco-labels does it have? Certifications from the Marine Stewardship Council and Aquaculture Stewardship Council are best.

The scale of salmon

• Sushi salmon in Japan, for example, may have travelled 17,000 km from Norwegian or Chilean farms.
• The need to mitigate the carbon footprint of salmon production will only increase as the world ramps up decarbonisation efforts.
• Salmon farming or aquaculture currently bridges this gap between supply and demand, accounting for 70% of the salmon available for consumption.

The authors do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and have disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

• LANDING, N.J., Sept. 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- DolCas Biotech, LLC obtains its first Non-GMO Project-verified label for MMP-50®, a cold-processed, DNA-verified, and clinically researched New England green lipped mussel extract for human and pet health.
• The transparency efforts the Non-GMO Project spearheaded on the food front has translated to the supplement market.
• DolCas voluntarily submitted MMP-50 for compliance evaluation with the Non-GMO Project standard.
• Like the Non-GMO Verified Project, the ASC certificate is the most highly merited of third-party credentialing in its category.