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About ASC
ASC is founded on, and committed to, transforming seafood farming
Our vision
is a world where seafood farming plays a major role in supplying food and social benefits for humanity whilst minimising negative impacts on the environment.
Our mission
is to transform seafood farming towards environmental sustainability and social responsibility, creating value across the chain using market mechanisms, improvement incentives and delivering value-added services from farm to fork.
How we go about it…
Championing and Making Change
With the most robust standards and the highest assurance, we ensure traceability and transparency throughout the supply chain. By choosing ASC labelled seafood, consumers in over 115 countries are contributing to a more sustainable future.
ASC drives farmed seafood transformation through two key approaches:
We champion change by leveraging our expertise, fostering innovation, and partnering with the supply chain to amplify our impact.
We make change by collaborating to develop the world’s leading independent certification and improver programmes for responsibly farmed seafood.
Our history
In 2010, we launched the Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) as an impact-driven NGO. We partnered with the Dutch Sustainable Trade Initiative IDH and WWF Netherlands to make aquaculture more sustainable. We do this by setting strict standards for seafood and farms and deliver high assurance throughout the supply chain.
Our ISEAL membership
Our system has been evaluated against, and complies with, the ISEAL Code – a globally recognised framework that defines practices for effective and credible sustainability systems. As the global membership organisation for ambitious, collaborative and transparent sustainability systems, ISEAL drives collective efforts to tackle the most pressing sustainability issues and create a world where markets are a force for good. Playing in line with this code, we’ve become the world’s leading farmed seafood certification programme from farm to fork.
