Tassal releases its sustainability report warts and all

Tassal the Tasmanian aquaculture company has released its first report a warts-and-all report into the sustainability of its operation. The report which was conducted internally against a framework set out by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) a non-profit organisation that aims to promote environmental and economic sustainability, and provides companies with a framework for reporting on their sustainability.

Linda Sams is Tassal's chief sustainability officer "We've had a lot of feedback from communities and our stakeholders that there was a wish for us to be more transparent in our operations and to share with people what our targets were, our environmental impacts, and how we were managing them," she says. "We really want to address our honest critics, because we want to be here for a long time and sustainability, although it's a much overused word, it's really about being a long-term, accepted Tasmanian industry. Read more ...

This blog is written by Martin Little, The Aquaculturists, published and supported by the International Aquafeed Magazine from Perendale Publishers. To get your copy of 'PPLAPP' click here.