Managing the aquaculture scope

For the GLOBALG.A.P. IFA scheme version 4.0 a list of new products has been launched, the aquaculture products are more differentiated than in the last version.

Aquaculture products valid for version 4.0 need to be managed differently and are located separately from the Aquaculture products for version 3.1.

In the version 4 Aquaculture scope there are 3 subscopes:

• Crustaceans
• Finfish
• Molluscs

In the GLOBALG.A.P. Database each new Aquaculture product has now three different quantities to be filled in:

• broodstock
• seedlings
• farmed fish

For successful acceptance at least one quantity has to be entered. This enables obtaining certification for only broodstock, only seedlings, only farmed fish or for any combination of these three. The registration fee will be calculated for every quantity based on the current fee table.

The quantities that shall be entered are the number of organisms in in-house production. The number of seedlings is the total number of organisms in all different growing stages. It is recommended to specify these stages in the paper certificate.

(hier kommt noch eine genaue Erklärung für die Mengen, abgesegnet von VW)

Furthermore it is obligatory to enter, whether broodstock or seedlings are additionally purchased - otherwise the products cannot be accepted. This means, even if the producer does not buy additionally any, this information has to be put as an attribute.

This is a new feature in the GLOBALG.A.P. Database. If the icon is selected, they are shown:

• Obligatory entries

It is obligatory to select Yes or No for Broodstock additionally purchased? and Seedlings additionally purchased?, furthermore for Post harvest activity?

Please, note: After having selected the first Yes or No, wait till the value is validated and reloaded. Continue then with the second entry and so on.

Have you not entered any quantity for broodstock or seedlings in-house production, Yes has to be selected at least for seedling purchase indicating the product source.

Vice versa, have you chosen No for purchase, there must be a quantity at least for seedlings.

Attributes and quantity information are validated during product acceptance and certification.

Currently all these steps of product and attribute registration have to be completed online for aquaculture products in version 4.0, the product upload sheet is not yet changed accordingly.

• Voluntary entries

In case Yes is selected for broodstock, it is optional to enter the specific GGN the producer is purchasing from (including the estimated no. of organisms).

Also the GGN of the feed supplier and the purchased quantity are voluntary.

Chain of custody

Chain of custody is a post farm gate certification. The contents of Chain of Custody and the sections 12 & 13 of the Aquaculture module are identical, the use differs depending on the legal ownership of the product.

The post harvest activity information covers the former on-farm-CoC (Chain of Custody) in chapter AB 12 Post Harvest – Mass Balance and Traceability (Performed by same legal entity as the farm). Producers will not receive a separate Chain of Custody certificate, neither if they sell the product for harvest and buy it again for packing.

In the aquaculture scope chain of custody is applicable for legal entities who aren´t producers and who only handle the product. This implies always the change of legal entity: producer is legal entity A, handling (e. g. packing) company ist legal entity B.

Chain of custody is implemented as a separate scheme standard in the database: GLOBALG.A.P. Chain of Custody. The GLOBALG.A.P. Chain of Custody standard is applicable for the scopes crops and aquaculture.

Every product in the subscopes broodstock, seedlings and farmed fish appers also in the chain of custody tree, so this standard is applicable for all aquaculture products.

The GLOBALG.A.P. Chain of Custody 4.0 standard has only one product quantity, Estimated certified outcome annual quantity in t. Here the output quantity has to be registered.

Based on the demand of retailers to provide more information to consumers a consumers´ website was created, where the aquaculture certificates can be validated via GGN: My fish or in german Mein Fisch.

FAQs

1. Extension of 3.1 aquaculture certificates

Should a 3.1 certificate be extended (aquaculture or chain of custody), this cannot be done in the online application as the scheme versions 3.1 and 4.0 are separately. In such cases, please, first manage and accept the relevant product of the 4.0 scheme version in the next cycle. Then please, contact the customer support requesting the extension.

2. Growing period longer than one year/one cycle

As the growing and harvesting period of aquaculture products can go over several months, very often it is not possible to create 1-year-cycles or 1-year-certificates for one product including all growing stages. The option is to enter the new version 4 product(s) e. g. in June and first set up the quantity for broodstock, subsequently the quantity for seedlings and finally for farmed fish during the year - as soon as the respective growing stage becomes applicable. This can be applied every year.

3. Purchasing and selling seedlings in different stages

If the farm would like to sell the fingerlings they obtained from the ova, this cannot be differentiated in the database. For a temporary and individual solution, please, contact the customer support.