Aquaculture Certification Council, Inc. is a nongovernmental body established to certify social, environmental and food safety standards at aquaculture facilities throughout the world.
This nonprofit, nonmember public benefit corporation applies the Global Aquaculture Alliance Best Aquaculture Practices standards in a certification system that combines site inspections and effluent sampling with sanitary controls, therapeutic controls and traceability. Part of ACC's mission is to help educate the aquaculture public regarding the benefits of applying Best Aquaculture Practices and the advancing scientific technology that directs them.
ACC currently certifies shrimp hatcheries, shrimp, tilapia and channel catfish farms and seafood processing plants to include same species.
Opinion Article: They advocate fishing squid with trawl nets Argentina
If the Undersecretariat of Aquatic Resources (Fisheries) authorizes the “target catch” of squid (Illex argentinus) north of the 41°S parallel with trawler vessels in the Argentine Excl...