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Marine Harvest pulls out of Chilean operation
MARINE Harvest has decided from next September to cease its fi sh farm- ing operations on Lake Llanquihue, in Chile. The decision was made after an extra-judicial settlement between the fi sh farmer and local residents, but is part of the company’s production strategy and part of its commitment to sustainability and working with local communities, reports FIS.
A report by the Undersecretariat of Fisheries and Aquaculture (SUBPES- CA) submitted during the judicial process had demonstrated that Ma- rine Harvest had not committed the violations required for its licence to be revoked. However, the company made the decision to pull out of operations in the Los Lagos region as part of the company’s long-term strategy in Chile. ‘To us it is important to maintain a
good relationship with the communi- ties in which our company operates’, said Marine Harvest general manager, Roberto Riethmüller. ‘This was a confl ict that had been kept for a long time and we feel it was necessary to sit at the table and talk. I think we have achieved a positive agreement, which allows us to move around and drive improvements to our process- es and, at the same time, strengthen trust with the entire community. To Marine Harvest it is essential to gen- erate a sustainable industrial activity under the highest quality standards and comply with all current health regulations.’
Hatchery to restore trout in Armenia ARMENIA’s government will has secured 3.6 billion drams for a
trout hatchery in Sevan Lake. An announcement was made by the country’s minister of agriculture, Sergo Karapetyan, states a report by Arka News Agency, in which he commented that the complex programme was aimed at restoring the trout population. A fi sh-rearing and fi sh processing factory will be built at Sevan, cost- ing 3 billion and 600 million drams respectively. Young fi sh produced at the facility will be released directly into the lake. In the ‘90s, the fi sh population of the Sevan totalled around 28-30,000 tonnes. Today, resources are down to only 420 tonnes.
The benefits of certified shrimp
AT VIETFISH in August, buyers and shrimp producers seeking ASC certifi cation came together to discuss the market’s needs and the requirements of ASC’s Shrimp Standard. The meeting was attended by the Aqua- culture Stewardship Council (ASC); WWF; and IDH, The Sustainable Trade Initiative, in partnership with Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP). Vietnam is the third biggest exporter of farmed shrimp globally; around 90 per cent of its total volume is exported. ‘Vietnam’s shrimp farming rapidly grew in the Eighties,’ said Ngo Tien Chuong, Aquaculture Pro- gramme Coordinator, WWF-Vietnam. ‘This event was an opportunity for shrimp farmers to come together with buyers where they could discuss how ASC certifi cation works and get more detail about the requirements in the ASC Shrimp Standard.
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Russian ban good news for Chilean salmon
WHILST the Russian import ban has left US, EU and Norwegian salmon producers desperate to fi nd alternative markets, salmon companies in Chile are predicted to take advantage and treble ship- ments of frozen product to Russia. A report in FIS explains that prior to the ban, the bulk of the 20,000 tonnes of Atlantic salmon and trout Russia consumes each month was imported from Norway and Scotland – about 10 per cent of the world salmon market. According to one Chilean entrepreneur, ‘Chile should sell Russia between 2,500 and 3,000 tonnes monthly and with this opening, we estimate that monthly closings should be about 7,000 to 8,000 tonnes.’ The Chilean salmon industry in general recognises that this is a golden opportunity to show the rest of the world the quality of the salmon produced in Chile. Prior to the ban Chile exported few products to Russia but now, says SUBSPECA Aquaculture Manager, Jose Miguel Burgos, Chile is working hard with Russia to get the health requirements of its fi shery produce up to scratch. ‘We were recently in commission with them making progress on this, so we’ve been preparing to meet the different requirements in order to do a good job’, he said.
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