Global Aquaculture Performance Index

GAPI empowers seafood industry leaders and policymakers to make more informed decisions about the environmental costs and benefits of farmed seafood

Visit www.GAPI.ca for more information.

GAPI uses a well-established statistical methodology to provide rigorous and objective evaluation of the environmental performance of marine aquaculture globally. Adapted from Yale and Columbia University’s 2008 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) (EPI website), on a 100-point scale, GAPI measures how close marine aquaculture is coming to meeting a suite of environmental targets, or goal posts. GAPI currently assesses performance on a country-species level (e.g. Norwegian Atlantic cod, Scottish Atlantic salmon). What GAPI is not is an aquaculture standard-setting or certification effort. Instead, it uses available data and scientific research to provide an unbiased, quantitative assessment of environmental performance.

Download the 2010 Report (2.6MB | PDF) or the Brochure (2.2MB | PDF)