Global Animal Partnership (G.A.P.) impacts the lives of millions of farm animals every year through our tiered animal welfare standards. Now, with the help of industry professionals and scientists, we are applying that same approach to aquaculture with the launch of our farmed salmon welfare standards.

G.A.P.’s Farmed Atlantic Salmon Standards cover the entire lifecycle of the animal from egg to harvest. Our three certification steps allow flexibility for operations of all types and stages to achieve G.A.P. Certification. The fact that our program is not a broad, one-label certification model is what makes us so unique. The differentiated steps, or levels, help communicate to consumers the level of fish welfare achieved. G.A.P.’s goal is to create a meaningful certification that rewards farmers for their fish welfare practices, communicates to consumers the way their food was raised, and positively impacts the lives of farmed salmon.