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How Seafood Helps Build a Stronger Immune System
Strengthen Your System with Seafood While our immune systems are naturally great at defending against microorganisms, sometimes germs invade, and we find ourselves dealing with illness. Age, nutrition, stress levels and sleep habits all contribute to our body’s ability to fight diseases and promote healing. Eating healthy foods regularly is one way to gain proactive […]
Shining A Light on Seafood Fraud
The last time you ate seafood at a restaurant did you consider that what showed up on your plate may not have been what you ordered? Chances are the potential for seafood fraud never crossed your mind, but it should have. Seafood fraud is a common and profitable practice that not only compromises retailers, foodservice […]
Get To Know Blue Ocean Mariculture: ASC’s First Certified U.S. Finfish Farm
Raising ASC-Certified Kanpachi on the Big Island As part of our mission to help you add responsibly raised seafood to your plate, we are fortunate to work with some of the best seafood farms in the aquaculture industry. Across the globe and here in the U.S., our ASC-certified farmers care deeply about the impact they […]
Women in Aquaculture: The Inside Track
What’s it like to be a woman working in aquaculture? International Women’s Day offers a perfect chance to ask two of ASC’s own team members about their experiences in the field. Renée Hamel is ASC’s Technical & Operations Support Manager. For her, sustainable seafood is a lifelong passion: “I grew up in rural Newfoundland in […]
Why Seafood Watch still considers ASC salmon from British Columbia a ‘buy option’
Seafood Watch rates all ASC-certified salmon as a ‘buy option’ If you have seen that Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch has rated farmed salmon from British Columbia as ‘red’ in its latest ratings, you would be forgiven for thinking that meant all salmon from this area should be off the menu – but you’d also […]
Verifying Seafood Origin With Better Than 95% Accuracy
Introducing Trace Element Fingerprinting ASC has unveiled a new technology that allows us to verify ASC-certified seafood back to its farm of origin with better than 95% accuracy. It’s a new way to seafood. Our pioneering technology – based on Trace Element Fingerprinting (TEF) – will, in part, help to further reduce seafood fraud and […]
Can Responsible Aquaculture Benefit U.S. Climate Policy? We Think So
As awareness of responsible aquaculture’s wide-ranging benefits increases in the U.S., ASC is moving the conversation forward in more ways than one – particularly when it comes to climate change. This May, ASC added its voice to a growing chorus of U.S. advocates imploring the Biden Administration to make responsible aquaculture part of its efforts […]
Explained: What is RAS Aquaculture?
Aquaculture is an innovative industry – it doesn’t stand still for long. Fish farming has traditionally been done in either ponds or sea cages – in fact this practice goes back many millennia. It is still the case that the vast majority of farms today are of this variety – what are sometimes known as […]
Seaspiracy: Why We Believe Responsible Aquaculture is More Important than Ever
At ASC we’ve been working to improve standards in farmed seafood for a decade, so we are always pleased to see people talking about issues around responsible seafood. This is the topic of a new documentary on Netflix, Seaspiracy. We share the filmmakers’ passion for the oceans and for improving the world’s food systems. But while the […]