Called the ‘Aquaculture Dialogue on Sustainable Soy Sourcing from Brazil’, this new roundtable group recognises that Brazilian agriculture practices and deforestation have come under intense environmental scrutiny, and also that with salmon feed often containing soy products from Brazil, these concerns could have implications for aquaculture supply chains.
While Europe’s salmon feed producers only purchase certified deforestation-free soy from Brazil, the partners have identified that in the best interests of our planet’s health and to help tackle the climate crisis, collaborative action is required in a number of key areas within the soy production sector. These include traceability, transparency, supplier code of conduct and deforestation.
Already, the dialogue group has put a new traceability system in place. Through this platform, each shipment delivered to feed producers now includes information about the municipalities and states from which the soy from that batch is sourced. 