Canadian salmon industry makes seven pledges
THE Canadian Aquaculture Industry Association (CAIA) has published seven industry-wide National Salmon Farming Commitments, and all the major Canadian salmon producers have signed up to them.
Canada is one of the first countries in the world to establish national commitments for salmon farming.
The CAIA says the commitments, and their corresponding actions and targets, demonstrate the Canadian industry’s commitment to being the best producers of farm-raised salmon in the world. In summary, they are:
1. Fish health: We are committed to using best management practices and technologies that support the wellbeing of farmraised salmon.
2. Sustainable feed: We support innovation in aquaculture feeds and are committed to the sourcing of environmentally sustainable ingredients that provide high-quality nutrition for our fish.
3. Climate change: We are committed to continuing to reduce our carbon emissions and are equally committed to becoming more resilient in the midst of a changing environment.
4. Food security: We are committed to providing a reliable and healthy source of farm-raised salmon to Canadians to help navigate future uncertainty to communities and boosting food security throughout Canada.
5. Food traceability: We will work to ensure consumers can more easily access the information they want about their salmon meals.
6. Ocean health: We are committed to continuous improvements to farm practices that further protect the marine ecosystem, including the benthic ecosystem health beneath our farms, and to the prevention of plastic waste and debris from entering the oceans from our operations.
7. Public reporting:We are committed to continuous improvements to farm practices that further protect the marine
All major salmon producers in Canada, as members of the
Canadian Aquaculture Industry Alliance (CAIA), have embraced the commitments.The CAIA said: “[We] will continue to work together to monitor and track progress.The goal is to achieve these commitments by 2032 and to transparently report progress each year.”