The Sustainable Fisheries Partnership (SFP) has launched a Feed Solutions Toolkit for the aquaculture industry, which combines over 80 tools, standards, initiatives, and platforms from multiple organizations to help companies make informed and sustainable choices about aquaculture feed.
“We want all seafood companies to include aquaculture feed in their sustainability commitments and policies because feed poses significant environmental and climate challenges," SFP Aquaculture Information Manager Paul Bulcock said. "Addressing this issue, along with continued improvements in farm planning and management, will enhance aquaculture's role as a low-carbon, environmentally sustainable, and socially responsible food source.”
Aquaculture now produces more than half of the world’s seafood. According to the SFP, feed ingredients are responsible for up to 80 percent of aquaculture’s carbon impact and up to 90 percent of certain environmental impacts like land and water use.
The SFP Toolkit brings together multiple tools, standards, and improvements that have already been developed to assist the seafood supply chain in meeting the challenge of feed sustainability. Produced with funding support from the Walmart Foundation, the Feed Solutions Toolkit offers “a one-stop resource for companies to tackle the climate change, habitat, and biodiversity risks associated with aquaculture feed.”
The SFP is a U.S.-based nonprofit which, according to its website, works with “retailers, brands, and foodservice companies to drive actions through their seafood supply chains to rebuild depleted fish stocks, reduce the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming, protect ocean biodiversity, address social issues in fishing, and advance economic opportunities for fishers and their communities worldwide.”
