US seafood supplier engages BAP manager for India, Asia

Seafood supplier National Fish & Seafood has engaged a former director in the Indian government to help the company maintain its certification with the Global Aquaculture Alliance (GAA)’s Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) program in India and southeast Asia.

National Fish, of Gloucester, Mass., USA, has engaged Rajkumar Gollapalli, former CEO of India’s National Center for Sustainable Aquaculture. According to the company, Gollapalli, as CEO, helped Indian shrimp farms get legally registered with authorities, ran technical seminars on management practices and coordinated farming activities to improve biosecurity and control of disease.

Among other duties, Gollapalli will work to increase the amount of National Fish’s shrimp that is four-star BAP certified, meaning farmed shrimp that is certified at the processing plants, farms, hatcheries and feed mills.

The announcement comes nine months after the company announced it was launching a project to enable small-scale shrimp farmers access to the BAP program.

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