天然食品採購指南

Being the top per capita seafood consumption, Hong Kong has been importing much of the seafood from overseas while local farms only supply less than 5% of the fish and seafood products to the city’s market. In other words, the

potential of local fish and seafood farming is enormous.

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Assurance of Safety and Traceability

 

The Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD) Hong Kong has been embarking on a mission to ensure the sustainability of local fish and seafood farms. Launched in 2005, the Accredited Fish Farm Scheme (AFFS) is an initiative of the AFCD Hong Kong which aims to uphold the quality and safety of local aquaculture products.

 

Under the Scheme, quality assurance tests are undergone to ensure products comply with relevant statutory safety

standards, namely heavy metals, drug residues and microbial quality of water. By providing quality and safe aquaculture products to the public, the scheme promotes the sustainable development of the local aquaculture

industry.

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Currently, more than 150 local fish farms have joined the Scheme that supplies a wide variety of live fish, chilled and frozen local high-quality aquatic products, including grey mullet, jade perch, pompano, giant grouper, Japanese seabass, red snapper, star snapper, cobia, etc.