Experts at the World Aquaculture Conference in Adelaide have unveiled a draft code for growing seafood sustainably. The new code would provide labeling, sourcing and certification benchmarks for the seafood industry, globally.
Presenter: Caroline Winter
Speaker: Graham Mair, president, World Aquaculture Society; Dr Pia Winberg, marine systems ecologist, Woollongong University; Herman Weiss, program manager, Global Sustainable Seafood Initiative; Patrick Hone, Fisheries Research and Development Corporation;
CAROLINE WINTER: Aquaculture is one of the world's fastest growing food sectors.
The United Nations recently estimated that global food production from fish farming expanded almost 12-fold in the past 30 years.
