{"id":1000225,"date":"2009-12-17T15:26:14","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T15:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asc-aqua.org\/?post_type=news&#038;p=225&#038;source_id=225&#038;target_id=1000225"},"modified":"2024-10-16T10:17:16","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T08:17:16","slug":"tilapia-standards-finalised-worlds-first","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/asc-aqua.org\/news\/tilapia-standards-finalised-worlds-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Tilapia standards finalised world&#8217;s first"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"block wysiwyg\">\n\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"row\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12\">\n\t\t\t\t<p><b>WWF Press Statement<\/b><b>: Global standards for tilapia farming have been finalised. They represent the first set of completed standards produced through the Aquaculture Dialogues, a series of roundtables coordinated by World Wildlife Fund (WWF).<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The standards are the product of the Tilapia Aquaculture Dialogue, a network of more than 200 tilapia farming experts including producers, conservationists and scientists &#8211; created in 2005 to help transform the aquaculture industry. Many of the participants are from the world&#8217;s leading tilapia producing regions, including Central America and Asia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">With almost 75 percent of the world&#8217;s tilapia coming from a farm, instead of being wild-caught, the need for credible standards is critical and timely<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">,&#8221; said Dr. Aaron McNevin of WWF, who coordinates the Dialogue and serves on its Steering Committee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The standards will allow the tilapia industry to grow while minimising its potential impacts, such as non-native tilapia being introduced and chemicals being released into the water.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are other tilapia standards on the market but these standards have staying power because they were developed by a broad and diverse group of experts through a very transparent process<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">,&#8221; McNevin said. &#8220;<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The standards also will have a long shelf life because they are metrics-based, which is the only way to really know if the tilapia industry is reducing its environmental footprint.&#8221;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000225","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asc-aqua.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/1000225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asc-aqua.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asc-aqua.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asc-aqua.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asc-aqua.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}