Responsibility
Reutilizado: agregando valor a la acuacultura a través del reciclaje
Con la sostenibilidad y la protección ambiental cada vez más prominentes en Chile, las empresas de reciclaje como Greenspot están llamando la atención.
Responsibility
New technologies taking on harmful algal blooms
Emerging technologies could make it easier for fish farmers to detect and defeat harmful algal blooms, but expertise will yield best results.
Responsibility
Repurposed: Adding value to aquaculture via recycling
With sustainability and environmental protection becoming increasingly prominent in Chile, recycling firms like Greenspot are drawing attention.
Health & Welfare
Gotta halve it: Inside the Chilean salmon industry’s efforts to slash antibiotic usage
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
Extensive wrasse use keys up ‘cleaner fish’ conservation questions
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
Chilean salmon farmers see brighter days ahead
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
Surmounting the consumer disconnect on farmed seafood
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
Cobia culture in recirculating systems
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 control: Perspectives from Chile
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 aquaponics systems evaluated for arid zones of Chile
Integrated aquaponic operations can improve water use efficiency because plants participate in nitrogen and phosphorus removal and integration.
Intelligence
An overview of mussel culture in Chile
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.
Health & Welfare
Chile’s salmon industry addresses health crises
Environmental and fish health problems have affected Chile’s salmon farmers since 2004. As production ramped up, 2006 saw an increase in sea lice that reduced output. In 2007, infectious salmon anemia spread across the farming region and quickly cut production.
Intelligence
Overview of trout farming in Chile
With favorable resources, local sources of eggs, availability of fishmeal and qualified labor, Chile has become the world’s top producer of rainbow trout.
Intelligence
Mussels, scallops lead Chile’s mollusk industry
For most mollusk resources, spat supply is not stable enough to sustain the growing industry. Competition for coastline space must also be considered.
Intelligence
Octopus culture under study in Chile
In studies of octopus culture, northern octopuses exhibited fast growth in experimental culture and southern juveniles tolerated culture conditions well.