Health & Welfare
Is Chile’s salmon industry turning the corner on antimicrobials?
According to SERNAPESCA, antimicrobial usage in Chile in 2022 was down more than one-quarter from 2021 and the lowest in 16 years.
Aquafeeds
“We now have the methodology to determine if an ingredient can replace krill meal in a plant-based diet,” said Dr. Rick Barrows, author of a recent study.
Health & Welfare
According to SERNAPESCA, antimicrobial usage in Chile in 2022 was down more than one-quarter from 2021 and the lowest in 16 years.
Responsibility
A Seafood Watch decision to downgrade Chilean farmed trout to "avoid" stirs controversy and criticism from third-party certification bodies.
Innovation & Investment
Los reportes ambientales y el control de calidad son dos áreas adicionales en las que la inteligencia artificial puede impulsar el desempeño de los productores de productos del mar.
Fisheries
Environmental reporting and quality control are two additional areas in which artificial intelligence can boost seafood producers' performance.
Responsibility
Emerging technologies could make it easier for fish farmers to detect and defeat harmful algal blooms, but expertise will yield best results.
Responsibility
Con la sostenibilidad y la protección ambiental cada vez más prominentes en Chile, las empresas de reciclaje como Greenspot están llamando la atención.
Responsibility
With sustainability and environmental protection becoming increasingly prominent in Chile, recycling firms like Greenspot are drawing attention.
Health & Welfare
Innovations in broodstock, farm and production management could cut antibiotic usage by Chile’s salmon farming industry by 50 percent in five years.
Health & Welfare
Few could argue that a reduction in sea lice-fighting chemicals isn't a win for the fish and for the environment. The downside, however, is that increasing numbers of cleaner fish are being caught for use on salmon farms.
Responsibility
Chile’s farmed salmon industry has had a rough decade. A lot is riding on its ability to work through the turbulence, including 70,000 jobs and $3.5 billion in annual sales. Is reducing production the answer?
Intelligence
In his first piece for the Advocate, industry veteran Phil Walsh, VP of Growth for Alfa Gamma Seafood Group in Miami, wonders why consumers are so comfortable with farm-raised land animals, but not farm-raised fish.
Health & Welfare
A unique pilot project supported by northern Chile’s biggest power-generating company and the Undersecretary of Fisheries and Aquaculture is raising cobia in a recirculating aquaculture system in the desert.
Health & Welfare
Sea lice are a significant threat to the Chilean salmon-farming industry. Chilean salmon farmers also understand that prevention and good management practices based on biosecurity measures are the best tools to minimize outbreaks of disease.
Health & Welfare
Integrated aquaponic operations can improve water use efficiency because plants participate in nitrogen and phosphorus removal and integration.
Intelligence
While Chile’s mussel industry has entered a growth phase, challenges remain, especially in the seed production and grow-out components. This contrasts with the well-developed nature of the country’s processing plants and marketing outlets.