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We know our customers are interested in where their fish comes from, and we are committed to providing safe, affordable and sustainable seafood to them. Our publicly available Seafood Policy outlines our approach.
We have been working in partnership with Sustainable Fisheries Partnership (SFP) since 2011 to better understand the risks within our seafood supply chain, and have pledged to make sure that all fisheries and farmed sources identified as needing improvements take appropriate action.
Through collaboration with the SFP Ocean Disclosure Project (ODP) we were the first UK supermarket to publicly disclose our own brand wild-caught and farmed seafood sourcing data. The data includes species and location, production method (for aquaculture species), certification and improvement status, sustainability ratings and environmental notes.
Asda was also the first company to participate in SFP's bycatch audit program, using sourcing information from its ODP profile published in 2020 to assess the risk to endangered, threatened, and protected species from the fisheries that supply its seafood, and identify the changes needed in those fisheries to reduce their impacts on ocean wildlife. The results of the bycatch audit are available here: Bycatch Audit of Asda's Wild Supply Chain and Asda's response is available here: Asda’s Response to the ETP Bycatch Report.
Aquaculture or farming seafood is an increasingly important source of food. Popular UK fish choices, such as salmon, trout and warm water prawns, are all farmed. We are working with our suppliers to reduce the impacts of aquaculture systems, and our farmed seafood must be produced in line with Best Aquaculture Practice, Global GAP or Aquaculture Stewardship Council schemes.
Our seafood suppliers continue to work with producers to identify how best to improve health and welfare for aquaculture species. For example, they are trialling the use of different options of feed ingredients such algal derived ingredients to reduce requirement for fish derived products. Asda have also worked with New England Seafood International (NESI) to successfully introduce humane stunning of sea bass and sea bream for all fish supplied to Asda.
Fish meals and oils are used in animal diets. While limited quantities are used for terrestrial livestock, larger volumes are used in aquaculture diets. Asda supports the MarinTrust standard for certification of fishmeal and fish oil feed ingredients as well as Marine Stewardship Council certified products and ingredients derived from by products of human food processing.
Asda supported a Fisheries Improvement Project for South East Asian fisheries which was based on two fisheries in Vietnam and two in Thailand. This work focussed on identification of the fish species used in feeds and their catch locations, driving awareness of the need for sustainable fishmeal and improvement of fishery practice especially reduction of juvenile fish catch.
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