Aqua Eco is a branch of Agro Eco Louis Bolk Institute, an international company advising in the field of organic agriculture.  Aqua Eco’s main activities are focused on organic aquaculture innovation, involving economic, environmental and social improvements.  Their research studies focus on organic cultured fish products including the integration of organic aquaculture with organic agriculture. 

This Group organizes IFOAM members interested in organic aquaculture.  Its purpose is to represent IFOAM’s objectives within the area of aquaculture and capture fisheries, represent its members with IFOAM and outside, and to discuss standards, certification and general development in the area.  IFOAM has also published its own set of organic aquaculture standards which can be found here: http://www.ifoam.org/about_ifoam/standards/norms/norm_documents_library/norms_documents_library.html.

BIRAC is a multi-functional aquaculture research facility in Australia that allows research teams to conduct research at their facility.  Currently, studies are being undertaken to examine the technical aspects of organic prawn production involving farm-based trials, feed trials, organic ingredients and extending shelf-life.

The ERS Briefing Room on Organic Agriculture contains a number of publications on the organic marketplace and stakeholder relations.  These publications are updated regularly and posted to the website for public access. 

Debio is the inspection and certification body for organic agriculture in Norway.  There, products can  only be sold as organic when the producer is approved by Debio.  The regulations concerning organic aquaculture have been developed in cooperation with the Swedish inspection and certification body, KRAV.

ICROFS is a collaboration between research groups in different institutions and universities and coordinated through a head office in Denmark. The secretariat of ICROFS initiates, coordinates, and participates in international research activities. The aim of their work is to strengthen the positions of organic farming and food systems and to increase the conversion possibilities from conventional farming production. ICROFS plays a central role in a large number of research endeavours, including the DARCOF III, CORE Organic, CERTCOST and GlobalOrg projects. ICROFS also manages Organic Eprints, an open, online archive for research in organic agriculture with more that 8,000 publications. 

Naturland is a German organic farming association that developed their own set of organic standards prior to the establishment of EU Regulations.  In addition, Naturland has developed their own standards for organic aquaculture and sustainable capture fisheries.  In several countries, these standards are used.  Its website details the steps necessarily to receive certification and requests that relevant parts of the inspection report for each fishery be published online in order for interested parties to comment on the information. 

NACA is an intergovernmental organization that promotes rural development through sustainable aquaculture.  Its main activities include capacity building through education and training; collaborative research through networking among centres and people; development of information and communication networks; aquatic animal health and disease management, and genetics and biodiversity.  NACA has specific programs in genetic and biodiversity, health, inland aquaculture, marine finfish culture, and shrimp farming. 

Nofima is a commercially oriented research group working on research and development for the aquaculture, fisheries, and food industry in Norway.  It conducts consumer and buying behaviour research on organic versus conventionally-grown salmon and other aquaculture products.

SARNISSA aims to link individuals interested in aquaculture throughout Sub-Saharan Africa and beyond.  The webpage hopes to strengthen alliances between languages (English and French) and across borders in order to build on the existing knowledge resources base, the Aquaculture Compendium.  The extensive website contains information regarding, among other things, research and employment openings, opportunities for PhD and other postgraduate students, and recent journal publications.