2023-10-11 11:30:20
Two years following in Tierra del Fuego the intensive farming of salmon in the open sea was prohibited, the global map of activity begins to slow down little by little. The governments of the Falkland Islands and Washington state also decided to abandon the system, an example that the Canadian province of British Columbia will follow in 2025.
Although the intensive salmon farming remains the second most important industry in Chile, last month the government announced the suspension of new concessions in protected areas that do not have a management plan. In any case, there are still more than 400 operations in those areas.
The British Chancellor will visit the Malvinas to defend the “self-determination” of the islanders
The Fuegian example
On June 30, 2021, a provincial law had regulated salmon farming in Tierra del Fuegomaking Argentina the first country to stop the activity.
It was following part of the local community, and the tourism and gastronomic industries, rejected a project to install the farms in the Canal Beagle. The Norwegian government supported the initiative and sought to expand it to other Argentine provinces.
This form of production involves the overcrowding of salmon in fattening centers: rafts with up to 10 cages with a depth of 15 floors, which enable conditions conducive to pathogen developmentcontamination with antibiotics administered to fish, and the negative impact on species that inhabit the sea.
They warn that illegal fishing in the Malvinas Islands might cause a “serious diplomatic conflict”
The activity also contributes to the overfishing. To feed salmon, pellets are produced with fish meal and fish oil, a process in which an estimated 72% of protein is lost.
It takes more than a kilo of other fish – most of them suitable for human consumption – to produce a kilo of salmon, according to calculations by the Global Alliance Against Salmon Farmswhich brings together scientists and conservationists from 15 countries.
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