Sustainability Certification
Third-party sustainability certification and precision farming optimise aquaculture operations for improved performance and positive ESR impacts.
SUSTAINABILITY CERTIFICATION
Certified farms provide the consumer with the highest quality seafood, protect the ecosystem, produce a healthier fish, sustain biodiversity, adhere to strict feed requirements, ensure social responsibility, and require transparency.
These Standards:
1. Guarantee Quality
Strict operating guidelines and exacting handling/processing procedures ensure the highest quality seafood
2. Promote Efficient Management
Certification requires a well-structured management regime. Scheduled monitoring and daily record-keeping combined with standard operating procedures require effective time management and an efficient working environment. This promotes consistent quality, smart work habits and increases profitability.
3. Require Sustainable Feed & Feeding
Feed ingredients are scrutinized to reduce wild caught fish ingredients and ensure any that are used come from sustainably certified fisheries. Feeding methods are economized to eliminate excess feed entering the environment.
4. Protect the Environment & Preserve Biodiversity
Monitoring programs verify implimentation of best-practice standards with regard to minimized negative impacts to the surrounding ecosystem.
5. Provide Adequate Wages & Working Conditions
Ensuring an equitable workplace encourages performance, minimizes disruption associate with high employee turnover, and helps reinforce a positive perception of the business within its host community.
6. Improve Fish Health & Welfare
Fish are provided the best environment for their welfare – low stocking densities, clean nets and tanks, no antibiotics or chemicals and quick painless harvest.
7. Traceability
Full chain of custody transparency allows the customer to track their seafood back to the producer. From birth to harvest through transport to their plate, the customer can verify the origin of their fish.
8. Meet Responsible Consumer Demand for Sustainably Produced Fish
Educated consumers increasingly demand seafood that meets all the above criteria. Certification labels provide the consumer with this assurance and open doors to high value markets.
PRECISION FARMING
Although precision farming is not a certification requirement, the use of artificial intelligence and next generation technology to monitor fish welfare, feeding, and other critical aquaculture parameters improves performance, increases profitability, and facilitates certification compliance.
NewSeas will implement applicable precision farming practices.