The Global Salmon Initiative (GSI), the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the UN's Food and Agricultural Organisation, and Rabobank joined up for the first time in the US last week to demonstrate how the global farmed-salmon industry is leading the way in changing aquaculture-business practices to ensure a sustainable future for the industry.
The meeting took place during the "Seafood Expo North America" in Boston.
The US is the largest consumer by country of farmed salmon worldwide, consuming more than 282,000 tonnes last year. In fact, demand for farmed salmon has increased by over 14 per cent in the last five years in the US alone, and is showing no signs of slowing down.
Global demand for salmon has increased even more quickly, doubling in the last decade, and is set to double again by 2020.
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