Stakeholder engagement

Stakeholder engagement is the key starting point for a company, not only in terms of its sustainability reporting cycle, but also as a means to connect to its business strategy and demonstrate how a company is responsive to the legitimate needs and concerns of its key stakeholders. Stakeholder engagement is a key component that drives sustainability within Skretting.

Together with our parent company Nutreco, we are involved in a number of multi-stakeholder initiatives to improve sustainability in aquaculture.

Antimicrobial resistance

Good Practices Manual

Lactococcosis is a severe disease historically cured by antibiotic therapy. However, the long-term and excessive use of antibiotics accelerates the phenomenon of antibiotic resistance, whereby bacteria develop the ability to survive drugs designed to kill them. Skretting has previously collaborated with the biotech pharmaceutical company HIPRA to offer farmers a sustainable solution to the significant and growing challenge of Lactococcosis. In this Manual, alternative or complementary prevention strategies to antibiotic therapy are highlighted.

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A kit to tell your value

Communicating the value of your product is not always easy.

To help our customers answer consumers' questions and counteract the spread of misconceptions, we have created a "Communication Kit", available to anyone who wants to discover the world of Italian aquaculture.

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aperitivONline: the new format to support the Italian aquaculture food system post Covid-19

The importance of identifying new opportunities, especially in times of crisis.

aperitivONline is series of interactive webinars that have run regularly throughout Italy’s lockdown. These have been providing fish farmers and other related businesses with invaluable insights from a wealth of external guests.

The objective is to help everyone with a connection to the industry identify opportunities to establish healthier and more sustainable supply chains that also champion local production and reduce supply risks.

Have a look into the aperitivONline Kit!

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UN SDGs

Partnerships for the goals (UN SDGs)

Given the scale of the sustainability challenges facing the world, it is impossible to achieve progress in isolation. This can only be achieved if partnerships are formed between all segments of society including business, government, NGOs and communities. Collaboration is part of our company values at Skretting and Nutreco and this can be seen through our long-term involvement in external partnerships and multistakeholder platforms.

AquaVision

AquaVision is about bringing leaders together to share experience and bring to life a shared vision of a world with sufficient good quality protein to support the growing population. The world has the resources and technology to eradicate hunger and ensure long-term food security for all, despite many challenges and risks.

Meeting the challenge of feeding the world of 2050 in a sustainable way will require coordinated contributions from many stakeholders. Academics, aquaculture and agribusiness, food manufacturers, retailers, non-governmental organisations, environmental groups, regulators and politicians will need to work much closer together to identify, facilitate and implement the most productive practices, breeds and varieties. AquaVision brings together these stakeholders to reflect upon the changing business environment and highlight examples of entrepreneurial innovation within our field. AquaVision has been arranged since 1996.

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SeaBOS

Skretting is a founding member of the sustainable body Seafood Business for Ocean Stewardship initiative (SeaBOS), which represents 10 of the world’s largest seafood companies. All of these member companies are aligned in the mission to lead a global transformation towards sustainable seafood production and a healthy ocean.

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Global stakeholder platforms

MarinTrust

The leading independent business-to-business certification program for production of marine ingredients. Skretting member of governance board.
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Sustainable Fisheries Partnership (SFP)

Skretting is a sponsor of the SFP, a non-profit organisation filling a specific gap between industry and the marine conservation community, utilising the power of the private sector to help less well-managed fisheries meet the environmental requirements of major markets.
About SFP

Global Salmon Initiative (GSI)

In partnership, GSI salmon farmers and feed companies have committed to working precompetitively together to accelerate progress towards ever increasing standards of sustainability for the farmed salmon industry, and to driving progressive innovation in the feed sector.
About GSI

The ProTerra Foundation

Skretting is member of the ProTerra Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation that advances and promotes sustainability at all levels of the feed and food production system.
About ProTerra

UN Global Compact

Nutreco is a member of The United Nations Global Compact program; a non-bindingUN pact to encourage businesses worldwide to adopt sustainable and socially responsible policies, and to report on their implementation. In 2019, Skretting was one of the first companies to sign the UN Global Compact Sustainable Ocean principles as one.
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SeaBOS

Seafood Business for Ocean Stewardship (SeaBOS) is an initiative resulting from a series of Keystone Dialogues between scientists and seafood companies.
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The Round Table on Responsible Soy (RTRS)

Nutreco is member of RTRS, which is a civil organisation that promotes responsible production, processing and trading of soy on a global level.
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Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO)

Nutreco has been a member in good standing of RSPO since near its inception. Committed to this multi-stakeholder platform, we purchase green palm certificates for all our palm oil products excluding kernel oil.
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New York Declaration on Forests (NYDF)

Skretting is a signatory of NYDF, which is a voluntary and non-binding international declaration to take action to halt global deforestation.
About NYDF

Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC)

Established in 2010, the ASC is a robust and credible environmental/social standard in the farmed seafood sector. Skretting is a member of the steering committee overseeing the work related to develop an ASC Feed Standard.
About ASC

Sustainable Shrimp Partnership (SSP)

Skretting is a founding member of the SSP. The SSP is a group of leading companies who share one mission: to make shrimp aquaculture a clean, stable, and successful practice for the world.
About SSP

Global Aquaculture Alliance (GAA)

Skretting is a member of GAA, an international non-profit organisation that promotes responsible aquaculture practices through education, advocacy and demonstration.
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GlobalGAP

Skretting is member of GlobalGAP which is an organisation that has developed criteria for food safety, sustainable production methods, worker and animal welfare, and responsible use of water, compound feed and plant propagation materials. Skretting is also a member of the technical committee that oversees the GlobalGAP aquaculture standard.
About GlobalGAP

European Feed Manufacturers’ Federation (FEFAC)

Nutreco is a member of the FEFAC Sustainability Committee, which meets two or three times each year in Brussels to address sustainability initiatives associated with the European feed industry.
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Cerrado Manifesto Statement of Support Group

Established in 2017, Nutreco was one of 23 founding member signatories to the Cerrado Manifesto Statement of Support Group (SoS). The SoS has become the world’s largest business-driven group calling for immediate action in defence of the Cerrado by supporting local and international stakeholders.
About Cerrado