The Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) program has reached a major milestone, with combined annual output from BAP-certified plants exceeding a million metric tons at the end of October 2012, up from 763,000 a year earlier.
There were 204 BAP-certified plants handling the 1.004 million metric tons of "one-star" product at the end of the month, up from 158 at the end of October 2011. The BAP is the world's leading certification program for farmed seafood.
Additionally, the annual quantity of product originating from BAP-certified farms has more than doubled over the past 12 months. At the end of October 2012, there were 251 BAP-certified farms handling 445,000 metric tons of product, up from 209 handling 209,000 metric tons of product at the end of October 2011.
