November 9, 2020

Relaunch of GAA's strategic-partnership programme attracts 40 new members

The Global Aquaculture Alliance (GAA) has announced this month that, since the relaunch of its strategic-partnership programme in early September, 40 member-based associations from 26 countries have joined the organisation as strategic partners.

Thus far, those associations have enrolled a total of about 455 members, but the intention is to embrace the full global aquaculture community, GAA said.

The objective of GAA's strategic-partnership programme is to enhance communication and information sharing within the global aquaculture community. These cost-free, non-binding agreements provide GAA's strategic partners with access to its aquaculture directory, Global Aquaculture Advocate magazine, Connect discussion forum, Aquademia podcast, GAA Films and access to day 1 of GAA's prestigious GOAL conference, which was held virtually for the first time in early October.

In exchange, GAA requests reciprocal exchange of newsletters or other information from associations as well as access to aquaculture production data that the association may collect for GAA's exclusive aquaculture production survey, the results of which are presented at the annual GOAL conference.

"We look forward to sharing information and interconnecting aquaculturists from around the world. We have much to learn from each other, and such networking and collaboration will greatly accelerate our collective progress," said GAA president and founder George Chamberlain.

The programme is geared toward aquaculture associations - global, regional, national or provincial. The associations may be focused on a particular species or on a particular segment of the value chain such as hatchery, farm, feed mill or processing plant.

Non-governmental organisations, academic institutions, research and marketing institutions and other non-commercial aquaculture entities are also encouraged to join GAA as strategic partners.

- GAA