Best Aquaculture Practices

Best Aquaculture Practices

The Best Aquaculture Practices Certified (BAP Certified) mark on retail packaging tells consumers that seafood came from BAP certified aquaculture facilities.

The Best Aquaculture Practices standards, developed by the Global Aquaculture Alliance, form the basis for BAP certification. The standards specifically protect biodiversity and worker rights within a program that addresses environmental, social, food safety and traceability issues throughout producers' operations.

BAP certification is implemented through the Aquaculture Certification Council, an independent certifying agency that employs an international team of accredited evaluators to inspect facilities to the BAP standards through site inspections, sampling and record reviews.

BAP certification is currently available for shrimp farms and hatcheries, and seafood processing plants.

Learn more: Best Aquaculture Practices website

Conformity assessment | How is compliance with this ecolabel's standard ensured?

Conformity with Best Aquaculture Practices's standard is verified by an independent organization (third party).

Certification / registration required

Applicants are certified against the ecolabels’s criteria before using the label

Managing organization | Who manages this ecolabel?

Name

Global Aquaculture Alliance

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Type

Non-profit

Also manages

None.

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