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Sustainability & Compliance

The Environment isn't a Thing.
It's a Place. It's Our Home

Gulf Marine Products isn’t a holding company run from the top floor of some big city skyscraper; we are a coastal company born and raised along the banks of the mighty Mississippi River.

We depend on a clean, thriving ecosystem to make our living, and we know that the ecosystem depends on us to stay that way. As an environmentally-conscious company dedicated to sustainability for over 25 years, Gulf Marine Products goes to extensive lengths to ensure that our facility and company operates within all standards of the HACCP, FDA, USDC and EPA.

We don’t just do this because it’s the law – we do it because it’s the right thing to do for our community, our customers, your customers, and the environment that we all share.

Higher Standards of Seafood Safety

At Gulf Marine Products, we take great pride in maintaining a plant and operations that meet or exceed the U.S. Food and Drug HACCP requirements. As a result of our demanding internal quality controls, you can always count on us to guarantee weights, counts, uniformity and quality for every order you make.

All of the seafood items we import at Gulf Marine Products also comply with all COOL Requirements. Our Master controls and every individual package always contains the following information:

• Production Code/Plant Code
• Country of Origin
• Method of Catch – Wild or Farm Raised
• Latin Species Name
•Production packing statement (i.e.- packed by company ABC or distributed by company ABC)
• Clear description of product and size

Turtle Safe

When you buy from Gulf Marine Products, you can rest assured knowing that all of our imported products and seafood meets or exceeds the standards of HACCP, FDA and USDC.

But that’s not all: we believe sea turtles are among Neptune’s most majestic creatures, so we’re proud to report that all domestic Gulf Marine Products comply with mandated turtle excluder device requirements.

At Gulf Marine Products, we believe the environment will give to us as long as we give back to the environment.

Quality & Sustainability Certifications

National Minority Supplier Development Council
Founded in 1972, the National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC) is the longest-operating business growth engine for the broadest group of systematically excluded communities of color (Asian-Indian, Asian-Pacific, Black, Hispanic, and Native American), and our impact goes far beyond supply chain.
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ASC
ASC standards are based on best practices and sound science. The measurable, metric- and performance-based standards apply globally to farming systems covering a range of locations, types and scales of operations. They were developed by more than 2,000 aquaculture experts who came together in a series of multi-stakeholder round-tables, so called Aquaculture Dialogues.
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Best Aquaculture Practices
Certification is verification that producers are following best practices to deliver farmed seafood safely and responsibly. Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) is a seafood-specific certification program that addresses the four key areas of responsible seafood—environmental, social, food safety, and animal health & welfare—at each step of the aquaculture production chain.
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Marine Stewardship Council
The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) is a non-profit organization which aims to set standards for sustainable fishing. Fisheries that wish to demonstrate they are well-managed and sustainable compared to the MSC's standards are assessed by a team of Conformity Assessment Bodies (CABs).
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British Retail Consortium
Our Tropic Seafood operation located in Nassau currently participates in the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) and has elected to comply with one of the most stringent food & quality programs in the world. The British Real Consortium provides a framework to manage product safety, integrity, legality and quality, and the operational controls for out lobster processing operation to be recognized as industry leading.
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Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points
HACCP, is a systematic preventive approach to food safety from biological, chemical, and physical hazards in production processes that can cause the finished product to be unsafe and designs measures to reduce these risks to a safe level. In this manner, HACCP attempts to avoid hazards rather than attempting to inspect finished products for the effects of those hazards.

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