Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Global Salmon Initiative marks five year anniversary

Five years ago today, a group of salmon farming CEOs decided to take a risk on a new approach to shaping a sustainable future for the industry – collaboration.

The Global Salmon Initiative (GSI) was the vision of those CEOs, who decided that the usual models of change weren’t working effectively, and something different was needed in order to see significant improvements in sustainability.
  



Betting instead on a model of pre-competitive collaboration and increased transparency, the GSI members set ambitious targets of achieving the highest environmental and social standards (as set by the Aquaculture Stewardship Council [ASC]), sharing expertise and knowledge to promote accelerated change at speed and at scale, and – likely the biggest risk of all – sharing their progress via a publicly available and transparent reporting platform.


Read the full article on the International Aquafeed website, HERE.

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