International Collaborating Centre for Aquaculture

Can financial institutions support implementation of Better Management Practices (BMP) and certification?

What are the interests of financial institutions on Better Management Practices (BMP) & certification of shrimp farming? How to support the BMP/certified shrimp farmers to achieve better financial services? In September 2011, the International Collaborating Centre for Aquaculture and Fisheries Sustainability (ICAFIS) conducted several interviews with key financial institutions in Soc Trang province to find answers for these questions. The answer? It is possible!

The Shrimp Aquaculture Dialogue Releases Final Draft of Standards, soon to become the ASC shrimp standards

Responding to the need to improve the sustainability of the shrimp faring sector, hundreds of stakeholders contributed to the Shrimp Aquaculture Dialogue, a process aimed at developing credible standards for responsible shrimp farming. The process, which started in 2007, issued a first set of draft standards in 2010. Realising that the standards needed considerable improvement to be applicable to the Vietnamese context, especially to the Vietnamese small-scale farmers, Dr Pham Anh Tuan of the Directorate of Fisheries and by Dr Flavio Corsinof ICAFIS, under VINAFIS, decided to join the Global Steering Committee that coordinates the development of the standards.