The Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch programme is approving a particular method for farming Pacific coho salmon developed by AquaSeed Corp.
The Pacific coho salmon will also be given a green “Best Choice” rating on Seafood Watch’s web site, following months of onsite visits by Seafood Watch scientists and reviews of the company’s production facility, feed ratios, fish contaminant and pollution discharge levels, Scientific American reports.
Sold under the SweetSpring label, the salmon contain high levels of omega-3 fatty acids, and has been placed on Seafood Watch’s brand new Super Green List, which describes the fish as being good for human health without causing harm to the ocean.
“This is the first farmed salmon we’ve ever talked about as a good source [for food, since the program’s inception in 1999],” said Geoffrey Shester, senior science manager for Seafood Watch. “This is extremely exciting. It’s not an experimental science project. It is mature to the point where there is real potential to scale it up.”
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