Producers working to Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) and Best Seafood Practices (BSP) standards made significant improvements across their operations in 2025, with a total of 7808 improvements made. Total certified production at the plant level at the end of 2025 was more than 3.2 million tonnes, states the Global Seafood Alliance (GSA).
‘The nearly 8000 improvements made across BAP- and BSP- certified facilities in 2025 are a powerful reflection of our industry’s commitment to continuous improvement,’ said CEO Mike Kocsis.
‘We are grateful to the producers and our partners worldwide who embrace third-party certification as a pathway to progress and are proud of the GSA team whose dedication helps advance responsible seafood practices globally.’
To achieve certification, producers must correct any non-conformities identified during the third-party audit – a requirement that translated into 7808 documented improvements made across processing plants, farms, hatcheries and feed mills in 2025. These included 2523 improvements in food safety, 2542 in social accountability, 1950 in environmental responsibility, 505 in animal welfare and 288 in traceability.
Of the total 4308 producers, 563 are processing plants (including farmed and wild capture), 3223 are farms (including fallow), 364 are hatcheries and 158 are feed mills. More than 200 retail and foodservice companies around the world have committed to sourcing seafood from BAP-certified producers, underscoring strong marketplace support for third-party certification. The overall retention rate for the BAP programme was 86%. In addition, GSA ended the year with 16 certified vessels.
2025 entailed several milestones for GSA, including Profand vessels becoming the first in Argentina to attain BSP certification for their vessels, Harimanada Co., Ltd. becoming the world’s first BAP-certified oyster producer in Japan, Yumbah Aquaculture becoming the world’s first BAP-certified oyster producer in Australia, GSA announcing that it will end eyestalk ablation for BAP-certified producers by the end of 2030 and the release of global market research conducted by GlobeScan to understand purchasing decisions related to seafood and certification labels.
