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- Standard
- CAR
- Effective date
- 29/07/2018
- Decision by ASC
- Approved
- Farm
- Granjas Marinas, San Bernardo
- Country
- Honduras
- Variance Request
- Extension of certificate validity due to unforeseen circumstances.
- Explanation of decision by ASC
- Approved - The VR is approved for this case only and shall not be used without prior consulting ASC. Given the extraordinary circumstances ASC approves of the VR for a certificate extension until the 30th of August.
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- Standard
- Salmon
- Effective date
- 02/08/2019
- Decision by ASC
- Not approved
- Farm
- Salmones Camanchaca, Pilpilehue
- Country
- Chile
- Variance Request
- To deviate from the PTI treatment plan because of rainfall decrease due to "El Niño" and the regulatory requirements for mandatory treatment.
- Explanation of decision by ASC
- Not approved - The ASC believes the magnitude of precipitation shortage last year is significantly different than the event recorded in 2016 (for which VR 181-182 were approved). In relation with the regulatory requirements, farms must comply with all applicable local and national legal requirements and regulations in order to comply with the requirements of Principle 1 of the ASC Salmon Standard, V1.2.
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- Standard
- Salmon
- Effective date
- 02/08/2019
- Decision by ASC
- Not approved
- Farm
- MOWI, Quitralco 6-2
- Country
- Chile
- Variance Request
- To deviate from PTI treatment plan.
- Explanation of decision by ASC
- Not approved - ASC believes that the magnitude of precipitation shortage last year is significantly different than the event recorded in 2016, (for which VR 181-182 were approved). In relation with the regulatory requirements, farms must comply with all applicable local and national legal requirements and regulations in order to comply with the requirements of Principle 1 of the ASC Salmon Standard, V1.2.
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- Standard
- CAR
- Effective date
- 15/07/2019
- Decision by ASC
- Approved
- Farm
- N/A
- Country
- N/A
- Variance Request
- That an auditor, David Minano, be allowed to carry out an audit on the social component of the ASC standard.
- Explanation of decision by ASC
- Approved. - This VR is approved for CUP - Social Auditor DAVID MIÑANO. Judging by the evidence provided, DAVID MIÑANO is a well experienced auditor and the four day Verite course is in line with ASC social auditor qualification requirements.
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- Standard
- CAR
- Effective date
- 15/07/2019
- Decision by ASC
- Approved
- Farm
- Invermar S.A. Auchac and Yatac
- Country
- Chile
- Variance Request
- To notify of an audit date less than 30 days prior to the audit.
- Explanation of decision by ASC
- Approved -This VR is approved for ACOURA. To make up for the missing days of the public comment period, the time to accept comments shall be extended.
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- Standard
- CAR
- Effective date
- 15/07/2019
- Decision by ASC
- Not approved
- Farm
- Cermaq, Brent Island and Venture Point
- Country
- Canada
- Variance Request
- Extension of Certificate Validity due to anticipated delay.
- Explanation of decision by ASC
- Not approved -This VR is not approved for SAI. Granting a VR for the anticipation of delay before the actual process has started is not possible. In case the process is delayed SAI shall make use of the Notice of delay
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- Standard
- Seabass, Seabream, Meagre
- Effective date
- 24/07/2019
- Decision by ASC
- Not approved
- Farm
- Cromaris, Kosara, Lamjana, Velo Zalo, Lim and Budava
- Country
- Croatia
- Variance Request
- That the ASC should exclude escapes as the reason for the difference in in/out numbers as dead fish are counted by dividing weight collected with average fish weight. However, some fish are decomposed before collection or cannibalised, therefore making calculations inaccurate.
- Explanation of decision by ASC
- Not approved - As fish populations are under pressure, esp. in the Mediterranean, negative impacts from escaped fish need to be mitigated. The ASC Seabass, Seabream and Meagre Standard seeks to address escapes of both types: noticeable and non-noticeable, demanding a farm management system to minimise escape risks and set metric limits on total allowable escapes, as well as total unexplained loss, addressing potential non-noticeable fish escapes.
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- Standard
- Seabass, Seabream, Meagre
- Effective date
- 24/07/2019
- Decision by ASC
- N/A
- Farm
- Cromaris - Lamjana, Kosara and Velo Zalo
- Country
- Croatia
- Variance Request
- That three farm sites be allowed to be situated closer than 500m to seagrass beds despite not being allowed in the ASC Sea Bass, Sea Bream and Meagre Standard.
- Explanation of decision by ASC
- N/A - This is not a VR but a request for ASC to judge compliance/non-compliance of the farm performance on the indicator 2.3.3. ASC as the standard owner shall not interfere with that decision. That is CAB's mandate.
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- Standard
- CAR
- Effective date
- 25/07/2019
- Decision by ASC
- N/A
- Farm
- N/A
- Country
- N/A
- Variance Request
- That an exception be made to allow a new auditor, even though they have not participated in the required two audits of the mentioned schemes in the CAR v.2.1. However, the person has considerable experience in other social standards.
- Explanation of decision by ASC
- N/A - VR is not needed due to release of Q&A79_CAR_v.2.1_Annex B, B39
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- Standard
- CAR
- Effective date
- 04/07/2019
- Decision by ASC
- N/A
- Farm
- N/A
- Country
- N/A
- Variance Request
- That auditor, Liliana Camacho, is suitable auditor for the social components of ASC Standard based on her experience. She has observed two ASC social audits and successfully conducted a witnessed audit.
- Explanation of decision by ASC
- N/A - VR is not needed anymore as the auditor will do the training end of July 2019.
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- Standard
- CAR
- Effective date
- 04/07/2019
- Decision by ASC
- Approved
- Farm
- All MOWI sites currently certified by DNV GL
- Country
- Norway
- Variance Request
- That a longer period of eight months be allowed to carry out transfer audits in a controlled way as multiple sites are involved. ASC usually requests transfer audits take place within three months.
- Explanation of decision by ASC
- Approved - The VR is approved for BV-DK. BV shall send an overview of planned transfers to the ASC (will not be published) and shall take into account all open surveillance audits to assure none are omitted and the client negatively affected.
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- Standard
- CAR
- Effective date
- 04/07/2019
- Decision by ASC
- Approved
- Farm
- N/A
- Country
- N/A
- Variance Request
- That an ASC Salmon auditor with auditing and professional expertise of hatcheries and RAS systems, is sufficiently competent to audit this facility (a fully RAS shrimp farm with no connection with the external environment) on a once off exception.
- Explanation of decision by ASC
- Approved - Given the extensive experience of the auditor mentioned, with RAS experience across different types of hatcheries, species and countries, the ASC approves this VR. The auditor may carry out audits for RAS systems across all ASC species.
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- Standard
- CAR
- Effective date
- 04/07/2019
- Decision by ASC
- Approved
- Farm
- MOWI - various sites in northern Norway
- Country
- Norway
- Variance Request
- That a longer period of eight months be allowed to carry out transfer audits in a controlled way as multiple sites are involved. ASC usually requests transfer audits take place within three months.
- Explanation of decision by ASC
- Approved - The VR is approved for BV-DK. BV shall send an overview of planned transfers to the ASC (will not be published) and shall take into account all open surveillance audits to assure none are omitted and the client negatively affected.
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- Standard
- CAR
- Effective date
- 15/07/2019
- Decision by ASC
- Approved
- Farm
- Kampachi México, S. de R.L. de C.V. - Aquacultivos de Cortéz
- Country
- Mexico
- Variance Request
- That ASC grant variance to allow SCS to make a certification decision and submit a report in greater than 20 days as required by C4.4.
- Explanation of decision by ASC
- Approved - This VR is approved for SCS in this specific case. SCS and the client contacted ASC well in advance but taking the necessary steps within ASC resulted in a delay in the process.
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- Standard
- Salmon
- Effective date
- 26/06/2019
- Decision by ASC
- Not approved
- Farm
- Nova Austral, Aracena 9
- Country
- Chile
- Variance Request
- That ASC consider applying the percentage factor out of 100% recommended on the total PTI calculation at that entire crop cycle.
- Explanation of decision by ASC
- Not approved - The ASC recognises an important element of an integrated pest management strategy at a farm level is to respect labeling instructions of the anti-parasiticides products used, including the dosage, thus, a % of dosage factor, as the approach used by Aracena 9 has not been included as one of the components to calculate the Parasiticide Treatment Index. Furthermore, the use of sub-doses could have negative impacts on the effectiveness of the pest management strategy implemented by a farm (i.e. development of resistance).
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- Standard
- Salmon
- Effective date
- 25/06/2019
- Decision by ASC
- Not approved
- Farm
- Tassal, MF236 Okehampton
- Country
- Australia
- Variance Request
- This VR looks to incorporate the requirements for the new Okehampton site specific Environmental Licence into the ASC assessment of the site.
- Explanation of decision by ASC
- Not Approved - This VR is closed as N/A on the basis that CAB is no longer the responsible CAB for the client and the current CAB is not involved in this VR.
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- Standard
- Salmon
- Effective date
- 25/06/2019
- Decision by ASC
- Approved
- Farm
- Bakkafrost, All ASC certified sites
- Country
- Faroe Islands
- Variance Request
- To reduce the sample frequency percentage of fines in feed from four samples per ASC approved site per year to four sets of samples that represent all Bakkafrost sites per year. This is because all feed is produced by Havsbrun and meets the requirement of <1% fines in feed.
- Explanation of decision by ASC
- Approved - the ASC understands the provisions taken by Havsbrún in its production process and that the results obtained from the feed fines sampling on-site do comply with the ASC requirement, as well as the ones obtained on-farm.
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- Standard
- Freshwater Trout
- Effective date
- 24/06/2019
- Decision by ASC
- Approved
- Farm
- Snaptun Frysehus A/S, Kongeåens Dambrug
- Country
- Denmark
- Variance Request
- To deviate from requirements of dissolved oxygen (DO) measurements. The concentration of DO in the outlet water has, in practice, no significant influence on the concentration of DO in the receiving water body because the volume of water discharged from the farm is equivalent to maximum 7% of the flow in the receiving water body.
- Explanation of decision by ASC
- Approved - Give the minor discharge volume (~7%) compared to the overall discharge volume of the receiving river, and the fact that macro-invertebrate studies do not show any sign of environmental degradation/impact downstream of the discharge point, ASC approves this VR for Kongeåens Dambrug farm and under ASC Trout Standard v.1.0.
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- Standard
- CAR
- Effective date
- 27/06/2019
- Decision by ASC
- Approved
- Farm
- MOWI, Indre Skjervøy
- Country
- Norway
- Variance Request
- To move fish from a site where PD is not endemic (but diagnosed) to Indre Skjervoy where PD is endemic, where fish can grow to market size. They will be kept separate from ASC certified product with good traceability throughout the production cycle.
- Explanation of decision by ASC
- Approved - his VR is approved for: Marine Harvest – Indre Skjervoy Farm (single site). Based on the provided background information by the CAB, no integrity risks occurs for Salmon certified as “ASC Salmon”. It is for reason that ASC approves this VR.
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- Standard
- Salmon
- Effective date
- 12/06/2019
- Decision by ASC
- N/A
- Farm
- Marine Harvest Scotland – Linnhe site
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Variance Request
- That the sensitive period for these farms should be determined for a 6-week period, in line with Norwegian regions, and to coincide with/immediately precede the wild smolt run on the appropriate loch system. For this system based on information incorporated on wild migratory smolts from Lochaber Fisheries Trust suggests this should be taken as weeks 15 – 20.
- Explanation of decision by ASC
- N/A - This VR is closed as N/A because the farm concerned with this VR is no longer in the ASC program.
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- Standard
- Serial and Cobia
- Effective date
- 12/06/2019
- Decision by ASC
- N/A
- Farm
- The Japan Seriola Initiative
- Variance Request
- That anti-parasite treatment (not including that with freshwater, formaldehyde, or hydrogen peroxide), such as oral PZQ administration, should be allowed ≤3 per lifecycle in 5.2.4 in the ASC Seriola and Cobia Standard..
- Explanation of decision by ASC
- N/A - The same topic (the use of PZQ) is covered by question 78. Therefore this VR is closed as N/A. Please see the question and official answer on that topic from the link below: http://variance-requests.asc-aqua.org/questions/qa78_seriola-and-cobia_v1-2_5-2-4/
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- Standard
- Freshwater Trout
- Effective date
- 29/03/2019
- Decision by ASC
- N/A
- Farm
- Danaqua, multiple sites
- Country
- Denmark
- Variance Request
- The CAB recommends that farms with a water abstraction from underground pumped water which is equivalent to less than 5% of the median flow in the receiving water body is exempted from indicator 3.2.2.
- Explanation of decision by ASC
- N/A - The client wants to withdraw variance request 298 as the client has closed the NC during the audit and made an action plan.
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- Standard
- Salmon
- Effective date
- 23/06/2017
- Decision by ASC
- Approved
- Farm
- Productos del Mar Ventisqueros Company, Centro Estero Quintupeu
- Country
- Chile
- Variance Request
- That Ventisqueros fulfil the criteria defined for indicator 8.25, however, instead of freshwater bodies, to instead rear smolts at net pen (open systems) located in a marine area at a sea farm.
- Explanation of decision by ASC
- Approved: This VR is approved for Productos del Mar Ventisqueros Company – all sites. The VR is granted under the condition that compliance with Section 8, including 8.26 to 8.31 must be demonstrated at the time of the audit of the grow-out site.
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- Standard
- Salmon
- Effective date
- 12/06/2016
- Decision by ASC
- N/A
- Farm
- Exportadora Los Fiordos
- Country
- Chile
- Variance Request
- That given the imminent launch of an ASC Feed Standard and measures taken by the farm to fulfil this, that they be excused for not meeting indicator 4.3.2 of the Salmon Standard.
- Explanation of decision by ASC
- N/A - his is not a VR but a request for ASC to judge compliance/non-compliance of the farm performance on the indicator 4.3.2. ASC as the standard owner shall not interfere with that decision. That is CAB’s mandate.
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- Standard
- CAR
- Effective date
- 25/10/2018
- Decision by ASC
- Not approved
- Farm
- Nouvelle Aquaculture de Crevettes de Besalampy, NACB
- Country
- Madagascar
- Variance Request
- That considering the level of compliance of NaCB Besalampy Farm; their implicit compliance of ASC requirements through the years and taking into consideration the similar VR 184 already approved by ASC on 2016, CUP requests the approval for NaCB Besalampy Farm to commercialise as certified all products harvested from September 2017, once an ASC certificate is issued.
- Explanation of decision by ASC
- Not approved - VR 184 was approved when CAR v. 1.0 was still effective and did not specify requirements for the setting the Eligibility Date for under-assessment product. CAR v. 2.0 became officially effective on the first of January 2017, with clear eligibility requirements set: 17.7.2 The Eligibility Date can be set as either: 17.7.2.1 The date from which all major non-conformities have been verified as closed and a corrective action plan to address all minor non-conformities has been approved, or 17.7.2.2 The date of farm certification as specified on the certificate. While creating the audit plan an earlier audit should’ve been scheduled to account and address the risk of the special harvesting time conditions of the NaCB Besalampy Farm which have been known beforehand.
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- Standard
- Salmon
- Decision by ASC
- Awaiting decision
- Farm
- The New Zealand King Salmon Co. - Clay Point, Marlborough Sounds
- Country
- New Zealand
- Variance Request
- To deviate from the metrics surrounding FFDRm and FFDRo in the ASC Salmon Standard. The CAB argues the metrics are primarily based on Atlantic Salmon, therefore, impacting on the fish's health.
- Explanation of decision by ASC
- Awaiting decision
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- Standard
- Shrimp
- Decision by ASC
- Awaiting decision
- Farm
- ASC-DNV-288182, Atlantic Shrimpers Ltd.
- Country
- Nigeria
- Variance Request
- To farm a non-indigenous shrimp species which is shown to be established in the farm area.
- Explanation of decision by ASC
- Awaiting decision
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- Standard
- Seabass, Seabream, Meagre
- Decision by ASC
- Awaiting decision
- Farm
- Selonda Aquaculture S.A. sites
- Country
- Greece
- Variance Request
- In Greece (or indeed the Mediterranean region) there is not either a government Institution or a private lab that has been accredited to the methodology for benthic analyses. This Variance Request is that in the Mediterranean HCMR results are deemed acceptable for the purposes of this analysis.
- Explanation of decision by ASC
- Awaiting decision
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- Standard
- Shrimp
- Decision by ASC
- Awaiting decision
- Farm
- CAMARONERA EL FARO S.A DE C.V; El faro Farm
- Country
- Honduras
- Variance Request
- That the ASC approve ASC El faro Farm for ASC Certification. The farm is located in an IUCN category IV protected area.
- Explanation of decision by ASC
- Awaiting decision
