2024-04-29 15:40:44
The Aquarium selected the members of this initiative based on a performance evaluation, with the companies Australis Seafoods, Blumar, Camanchaca, Cermaq, Cooke Chile, Multi X and Nova Austral being chosen.
Monterey Bay Aquarium unveiled one of the new projects that seeks to positively impact Chilean salmon farming. This is the Chilean Salmon Antibiotic Reduction Program (CSARP+) initiative, the second phase of its project that seeks reduce antibiotic use and recognize Chilean farmed Atlantic salmon companies for their concrete and consistent actions in pursuit of this goal.
This second stage of the project, which seeks to positively impact Chilean salmon farming, was presented at the Seafood Expo Global in Barcelona 2024. This following an evaluation that revealed that action is needed more quickly.
The first stage was launched in 2019, when the Monterey Bay Aquarium signed a collaboration agreement with SalmonChile, which represents 95% of salmon production in Chile, to launch the CSARP program. Through this initiative, the union companies They committed to reducing the use of antibiotics by 50% by 2025..
This because the salmon It is one of the fish most consumed and appreciated in the United Statesand about half of the farmed salmon it imports comes from Chile.
The founding members of CSARP+ are: Australis Seafoods, Blumar, Camanchaca, Cermaq, Cooke Chile, Multi X and Nova Austral.
The companies, which together produce approximately half of all Atlantic salmon farmed in Chile, also commit to Regularly share your individual data to continue your progress. For the future, it is expected that more and more firms will join this initiative.
“To meet the growing demand of those who consume salmon in the United States and, at the same time, mitigate threats to the environment and human health, the CSARP+ initiative encourages companies to act by granting individual and name recognition to those that have high performance. This, with the expectation that companies that source from Chile choose to do so with their products,” declared the vice president of Global Ocean Conservation at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, Jennifer Dianto Kemmerly.
“The salmon sector, led by us and always with the support of Intesal, has promoted transparency in antibiotic use data since the first sustainability report in 2016,” said the president of SalmonChile, Arturo Clément.
He added that “in this way, always with the idea of moving forward in improving the gaps we have, the agreement with the Monterey Bay Aquarium arose and CSARP was executed.”
To conclude, Clément stated that “we must not forget that the use is made under the concept of animal health and international regulations, in addition to the fact that we have the highest standards for the consumer. This is another example of the perseverance and commitment with the improvement that is driving national salmon farming on its path towards a more sustainable productive sector.”