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The new ASC Farm Standard
Have your say on the content of the ASC Farm Standard. Whether you’re a farmer, a retailer, an NGO or anyone else who is interested in what we are doing, we want to hear from you!
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From Monday 8th April until 22nd May 2024, ASC is running a stakeholder consultation on the new ASC Farm Standard, addressing requirements for key areas such as water quality, green house gas emissions, alien species, living wage and animal welfare.
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.
Stakeholder consultation: have your say on the final content of the ASC Farm Standard
Whether you’re a farmer, a retailer, an NGO, academic, or anyone else who is interested in what we are doing, we want to hear from you!
Stakeholder inclusion and participation is a key element of the ASC programme to ensure that the ASC Farm Standard reflects a breadth of knowledge, expertise and expectations.
The Standard has undergone several rounds of stakeholder consultation and will now undergo a final round of stakeholder consultation in April 2024.
How to get involved
The survey contains:
- Questions about where ASC is doing well, and where improvements can be made
- General questions about the content of the new ASC Farm Standard
- Specific questions about certain ‘deep dive’ topics within the new ASC Farm Standard
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The Stakeholder consultation will run until Wednesday 22nd May.
Below you can find supporting materials and information to help you understand the key changes and enhancements that we are consulting on.
Documentation
Overall explainer of all aspects of the ASC Farm Standard
Japanese
Korean
Turkish
ASC Farm Standard
Supporting in depth information for selected topics
English
French
German
Japanese
Korean
Spanish
Turkish
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.