Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) - Farm standard

The ASC is a certification programme and label for farmed seafood that is helping to address some of the most pressing consumer, social and environmental challenges of our time. The standards set strict requirements for responsible farming, which encourage seafood producers to minimise the key environmental and social impacts of aquaculture. The current eleven ASC standards cover 17 species groups: abalone; bivalves (clams, mussels, oyster, scallop); flatfish, freshwater trout; pangasius; salmon; seabass, seabream, meagre; seriola and cobia; shrimp; tilapia, and tropical marine finfish. There is also a joint ASC-MSC standard for seaweed.