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Global Aquaculture Alliance is an international non-profit trade organization dedicated to advancing responsible fish and shellfish farming. GAA plans to build on the current BAP standards with additional components for shrimp feed mill certification and laboratory verification of the food safety of final shrimp products. Once the comprehensive standards for farmed shrimp are complete, GAA will begin to introduce parallel standards for farmed fish and mollusks.
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Aquaculture, the cultivation of aquatic life, is an established practice in many parts of the world. In Canada, aquaculture was first used to enhance natural stocks... it is now a large-scale commercial industry across the country providing direct and indirect economic benefits to many local and regional economies. All ten provinces and the Yukon Territory currently have a stake in commercial aquaculture and interest is increasing in the Northwest Territories. Aquaculture production in 2001 accounted for 10.7% of total fish production in Canada.
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By acquiring and maintaining the Aquaculture Certificate of Registration you will have access to these benefits. Aquaculturists that do not acquire and maintain an Aquaculture Certificate of Registration are subject to the regulatory authority of the Department of Environmental Protection, Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and the Water Management Districts.
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Aquaculture has received considerable interest because of increased consumer demand for fish and shellfish, and a declining fisheries catch. Aquaculture is expanding to exploit the resulting market potential. However, aquaculture producers must compete with wild-harvested products, as well as other farm-raised and imported products, in a very competitive market that includes other protein sources, such as beef, pork, and chicken.
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Aquaculture employs many different strategies to achieve the final goal of producing a marketable farm-raised seafood product. Extensive, semi-intensive, intensive and super-intensive farming methods are all being utilized today. Aquaculture techniques for many different species have been continually refined over the last fifteen to twenty years. In 2000, reported total aquaculture production (including aquatic plants) was 45.7 million tons by weight and US$56.5 billion by value. China was reported to have produced 71 percent of the total volume and 49.8 percent of the total value of aquaculture production. More than half of the total world aquaculture production in 2000 was finfish, and the growth of the major species groups continues to be rapid with no apparent slowdown in production to date.
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Aquaculture, for marine and brackish water species as well as for freshwater species, is expanding rapidly throughout the world. Some of the driving force for this expansion is simply the need for additional food resources. However, in other cases the demand is caused by the recognition of fish oils and other products as healthy substitutes for other traditional products. New potential aquatic species are being studied and cultured each year creating a need for specialized formula feeds and feed ingredients. New food products and processes, especially those from aquaculture, have created by-products that are well suited for aquatic feeds. Many of these products are high moisture and require specialized drying equipment or a carrier on which the product must be dried.
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