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What is farmed seafood?
Find out how farmed seafood can help feed a growing global population, why fish farming needs to meet certain environmental and social standards, and how you can make a conscious choice when selecting seafood.
The growth of aquaculture has been unprecedented, and it now supplies more than half of the world’s fish for human consumption.
Aquaculture means farming fish, seafood and aquatic plants. Farmed seafood is an important source of protein readily available to billions of people around the world. It is helping fight world hunger and malnutrition, and overfishing. But, like with all farming, it can have negative social and environmental impacts.
The ASC certification programme is based on farms meeting robust environmental and social requirements. By choosing ASC-labelled seafood products, you are supporting farms around the world that are driving continuous improvement and positive change in seafood farming.
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