According to news source the standards, when adopted, will help minimize the main environmental and social issues associated with pangasius farming. It is informed that the first draft of the standards will be finalized, based on feedback at the December meeting, and then posted on the Dialogue website for public comment. World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Senior Aquaculture Advisor Dr. Flavio Corsin, who coordinates the Dialogue, said that the pangasius Dialogue is a unique platform that gives everybody willing to contribute to the development of standards an opportunity to do so.
It is noticed that the Dialogue includes producers, processors, exporters, retailers, input suppliers, government officials, academics, NGO representatives and others interested in pangasius farming.
According to the source this will be the third meeting of the Dialogue since the group was created in September 2007. At previous meetings, participants agreed on the eight main environmental and social issues, such as water pollution and health management, related to the farming of tra and basa – the two key pangasius species.
It is fact that the pangasius Dialogue is one of seven WWF-initiated Dialogues underway globally. The Dialogue set the standards developing for salmon, trout, tilapia, shrimp, abalone and four types of bivalve shellfish.
