Marine Harvest Canada on Tuesday announced it is the first salmon company in British Columbia and the second salmon company in the world to obtain the four-star Best Aquaculture Practices status for its Dalrymple freshwater hatchery in Campbell River, Canada.
“We expect this four-star product to be available in the market in 2016," Katherine Dolmage, certification manager at Marine Harvest Canada, said.
Previously, BAP hatchery standards existed only for shrimp, but were updated in September to include finfish, crustaceans, and mollusks.
In 2013, MHC was BC’s first salmon company to achieve three-star BAP status, with the certification of its Port Hardy processing plant.
