Global Salmon Initiative – Achieving goals through industry partnership

If there is one thing everyone can agree on, it is that significant change is needed across global food systems to ensure they can meet growing demand, conserve the world’s resources, and provide nutritious food. It is widely acknowledged aquaculture can help deliver on this need, but change is needed.

This is where the Global Salmon Initiative (GSI) comes in. GSI is a leadership initiative established by leading farmed salmon CEOs from around the world who share a vision of providing a healthy and sustainable source of protein to feed a growing population, while minimising their environmental footprint. Our goal is to connect members of the industry alongside core supply chain actors to motivate and drive industry wide sustainability improvements at speed and scale.

This is achieved by the facilitation of a unique pre-competitive knowledgesharing platform to assess and update best-practices, enhance industry transparency through annual reporting, and driving innovations along the supply chain to strengthen environmental performance and farm salmon that’s raised to be better for oceans, climate, and communities.

In 2021, GSI’s efforts focused on:

Climate impact – working in partnership with World Wildlife Fund (WWF), GSI members have developed an aligned accounting framework to measure greenhouse gas emissions which they will begin reporting on in 2022, and collecting data to inform and enhance mitigation strategies .
ASC certification – GSI members are committed to reach 100% ASC-certification, and at the end of 2021 we saw 60% of GSI member production certified. In addition, company progress can be tracked via our online sustainability report.
Fish health and welfare – our technical working group continued to work together to address welfare challenges and promote continuous improvement in best-practices to better mitigate and prevent disease outbreaks, and optimise fish welfare.
Sustainable sourcing of feed – from improving feed efficiencies, assessing role of novel ingredients, supporting development of new ASC Feed Standard, and engaging in crucial dialogue on the sustainable use of soy our network is continually looking for ways to optimise fish nutrition while minimising environmental cost of our resources.
Responsible plastic use – this year we established a new working group to look at the use of plastics both within our operations, but also how as a sector we can help address the issue of ocean plastics.

If there is one thing everyone can agree on, it is that significant change is needed across global food systems to ensure they can meet growing demand, conserve the world’s resources, and provide nutritious food.

Sophie Ryan, Chief Executive Office, Global Salmon Initiative

As we rapidly approach 2030, and the deadline for achieving the sustainable Development Goals, we know there is a lot more to be done. Through collective action we aim to use the GSI framework to drive the change needed, at the speed it is required.

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Transparency & trust

In last year’s report we explained the process that led us to define Transparency and Trust as a new pillar for Skretting. We have seen how the market is increasingly demanding more transparency with the aim of identifying and preventing environmental, social and governance risks connected to our operations.

Skretting Sustainability Report 2021

Global Salmon Initiative – Achieving goals through industry partnership

In 2021, GSI’s efforts focused on:

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