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Chilean Government recommends salmon crisis measures 10 June, 2008 -
Among other things, reports the Santiago Times, the committee is calling for a comprehensive study to determine exactly how much salmon production Chilean waters can handle. Environmental organisations and local fishermen groups have demanded such a study for years, arguing that salmon companies have stretched the capacity of Region X’s coastal waters beyond breaking point. Chilean salmon farms produce, on average, 25 kilos per cubic metre, according to the Santiago-based environmental NGO Fudación Terram. In Norway, the world’s leading farmed salmon producer, the concentration is significantly lower: 15 kilos per cubic metre, it says. The committee, technically a part of the Ministry of Economy, is also calling for changes to Chile’s Aquaculture Environmental Regulation (RAMA) and Sanitary Regulation (RESA). So far, the group hasn’t specified exactly what those changes are other than to say it wants to revise rules pertaining to the import of fish eggs. “Right now the industry, because of its growth, must adapt to the new conditions it faces so that it can continue to develop the way it has in recent years. "Without a doubt, this situation involves institutional, environmental and sanitary challenges,” economy minister, Hugo Lavados told members of the press late last week. Other recommendations include speeding up the process by which salmon concessions are transferred among companies, reviewing the status of pending concessions in Regions X, XI and XII and upping the budget for the National Fishing Service (SERNAPESCA), so that the government body can better control the spread of Infectious Salmon Anemia (ISA). Job losses, combined with a spate of bad press regarding the disease outbreak, have created something of a crisis climate within Chile’s salmon industry, which after growing by an average of 20 per cent between 2003 and 2006, expanded by just 2 per cent last year. One of the government’s primary responses to the crisis was the formation of the emergency salmon committee. The group is being led by Felipe Sandoval, the former head of the government’s Fishing Undersecretaries Office (SUBPESCA). Other members include current fishing undersecretary Jorge Chocair, Production Promotion Authority vice president Carlos Alvarez, SERNPESCA director Félix Inostroza, marina undersecretary Carolina Echeverría, Luis Pichott of the Chile Foundation and scientist Bernabé Santelices. SalmonChile, the industry’s private producers’ association, applauded the committee’s handling of the situation. www.fishfarmer-magazine.com is published by Special Publications. Special Publications also publishes FISHupdate.com, FISHupdate magazine, Fish Farmer, the Fish Industry Yearbook, the Scottish Seafood Processors Federation Diary, the Fish Farmer Handbook and a range of wallplanners.
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