Issues of Social License to Operate for Feed producers for Aquaculture

Abstract

This white paper is a delivery from the ImprovAFish project, work package 4: Responsible Research and Innovation. We have explored how feed producers for aquaculture can achieve a social license to operate. Through a methodological triangulation, with stakeholder interviews, a project workshop, and a documentary analysis of annual reports from relevant businesses, we identified 8 salient issues: Sustainability; Circularity; Power and governance; What consumers desire; Feed efficiency; Uncertainties; Untapped resources; Regulations, certifications and standards. What these issues entail is specified in the White paper, together with suggestions to the research policy on feed for aquaculture.