World: Best Aquaculture Practices farmed salmon draft standard criticized as greenwashing by coalition of NGOs

A letter signed by more than 70 environmental, animal welfare, and community groups from 18 countries criticizes the Global Seafood Alliance and its new Best Aquaculture Practices certification standard for what the signatories say amounts to greenwashing industrial salmon farming.The letter, submitted on the final day of the public consultation for BAP Salmon Farm Standard issue 3.0, accuses the BAP standard of having “no meaningful metric limits or performance expectations for certified farms on critical environmental impacts such as sea lice, disease, parasiticides, antibiotics, dissolved oxygen, and endangered, threatened and protected species.” “There is mounting evidence that environmental harms and human rights abuses are occurring despite the ‘responsible seafood’ claims of BAP and other certifications,” Living Oceans Society Sustainable Seafood Campaigner and SeaChoice Representative Kelly Roebuck said. “The new BAP Standard is no exception. Farms in Chile’s marine ...