Guidelines for Sustainable Aquaculture (GSA)

Strategic documents

08/04/2025

The Workshop on Communicating the Guidelines for Sustainable Aquaculture (GSA) was held in Rome, Italy on 28–29 October 2024. The 33 participants comprised governmentally nominated delegates complemented by invited experts...

28/02/2025

The Workshop on Revisions to the FAO Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries Aquaculture Questionnaire was held in Bangkok, Thailand, from 8 to 10 May 2024. Twenty-four experts from fifteen...

24/07/2024

The Guidelines for Sustainable Aquaculture (GSA) were prepared at the request of Members in an inclusive, transparent and participatory manner under the guidance of the Sub-Committee on Aquaculture of the...

04/09/2023

The Twelfth Session of the Sub-Committee on Aquaculture of the FAO Committee on Fisheries was held in Hermosillo, Mexico, 16–19 May 2023. The Sub-Committee: commended FAO’s work and highlighted the...

03/09/2023

The Eleventh Session of the Sub-Committee on Aquaculture of the FAO Committee on Fisheries was held virtually from 24 to 27 May 2022. This document presents the report of the...

17/05/2023

The Sub-Committee on Aquaculture at its tenth session held in Trondheim, Norway from 23 to 27 August 2019 commended FAO’s work on the Guidelines for Sustainable Aquaculture (GSA) and provided...

09/01/2023

This document represents the final report of the Regional Consultation for Europe and North America on the development of Guidelines for Sustainable Aquaculture (GSA), held virtually from 27 to 29...

07/07/2022

In line with the recommendation of the FAO Sub-Committee on Aquaculture of the Committee on Fisheries (COFI-SCA) made in 2017, as endorsed by the Committee on Fisheries (COFI) in 2018, regarding the preparation of the Guidelines for Sustainable Aquaculture (GSA), the FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Division organized, virtually, the second Expert Consultation on the development of GSA from 18 to 22 October 2021.

02/12/2021

The report presents the results of Eastern Europe and Central Asia regional consultation on the development of Guidelines for Sustainable Aquaculture (GSA). The consultation was held as a virtual meeting...

18/10/2021

In line with the recommendation of the FAO Sub-Committee on Aquaculture of the Committee on Fisheries (COFI-SCA) made in 2017, as endorsed by the Committee on Fisheries (COFI) in 2018,...

04/11/2020

The regional consultation held in Mali, Bamako, on 29–30 November 2019, was organized as a series of regional consultations of the project entitled “Support to global consultations to developing guidelines...

27/08/2019

This document presents the adopted report of the tenth session of the Sub-Committee on Aquaculture of the FAO Committee on Fisheries (COFI), held in Trondheim, Norway from 23 to 27...

17/07/2019

The Expert Consultation on the Development of the Sustainable Aquaculture Guidelines was held in Rome, Italy from 17 to 20 June 2019 to come out with a proposal for developing...

27/10/2017

The ninth session of the Sub-Committee on Aquaculture (SCA) of the FAO Committee on Fisheries (COFI) was held in Rome, Italy from 24 to 27 October 2017. It was attended...