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The new ASC Farm Standard
ASC is bringing together its twelve species-specific standards into one robust Farm Standard to provide greater consistency across all species covered by ASC.
This means:
- The requirements that all farms need to meet to obtain, and retain, ASC certification are relevant and consistent
- ASC can act on market demand for new species and add new production systems to the programme
- Previous requirements are enhanced and new ones are added to address the key environmental and social impacts from aquaculture
The Standard is structured according to four principles – with our new, fourth principle developed to put fish welfare front and centre of our new approach
Each principle contains a set of criteria that set effective, credible and measurable requirements.
Click on the principle you are interested in to find out more.
Timeline
Documentation
Overall explainer of all aspects of the ASC Farm Standard
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ASC Farm Standard
Supporting in depth information for selected topics
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Supporting documents and tools
ASC will finalise the Farm Standard in 2024 and work to make this operational in 2025, with a transition period to support farms in moving from ASC’s species-specific Standards to the new Farm Standard.
If you have questions, or any other related feedback please let us know.
Document archive
For documentation on the New Farm Standard prior to 2024, please visit the document archive.