Marine Harvest Chile has become the first salmon farmer to complete the Best Aquaculture Practices’ (BAP) new multi-site zone cluster program, resulting in nine of its salmon farm sites and two of its processing plants attaining BAP certification, the Global Aquaculture Alliance announced in late January.

The BAP multi-site zone cluster program allows an applicant with multiple farm sites in a federally set zone, also known as “barrio,” or neighborhood, to apply for BAP certification for more than one site at a time.

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