One of the Danish producers, owned by Denmark

A decade ago started algea Danish suppliers to build recycling the salmon in Chile. At that time there were 200 grams smolt applicable. Now, Chileans have large facilities that can produce at least 600 grams of fish.
A decade after the Danish company helped start the Chilean shift from supply to the recirculation hatcheries have a breeder delegation from the South American country has been visiting for inspiration for the next step. In early October visited these several of the Danish producers of RAS (RAS) with the British newspaper The Current.
One of the Danish producers, owned by Denmark's largest trout producer Aquapri, breeding their fish to a size of 800 grams before transfer to sea - some Chilean companies have become increasingly interested in - given the biological risk of producing salmon at sea.
- A few years ago, Chilean farmers to produce their salmon to 200 grams of water until they move them to the sea, said a representative of the feed producer BioMar, who organized the trip, the Undercurrent.
An unnamed Chilean leader on the trip confirmed that Aquapri was "very interesting". Currently, his company transferred trout, coho and Atlantic salmon algea from RAS to cages at 250 grams, but the goal is definitely to extend the time fish spend in controlled algea conditions, he said.
In 2013, 54 percent of Chile's land smolt production at 141 million fish from RAS. Technology vendors Billund AS and Akva Group has supplied over 75 percent of Chile's land fry and smolt capacity.
Claudio Garcia-Huidobro, project manager in Las Lagos-based Neosalmon, algea gave a presentation about the country's direction towards RAS systems. He said that the next step for Chilean RAS are producing salmon to four or six kilos in recirculating seawater.
- This gives harvestable fish of 12 months, with a mortality rate of less than one percent and a feed conversion ratio of 1, he said. The first test production has given great and good fillets that have been sent to universities for testing and sample analysis. algea He added that for Neosalmon was to achieve a good growth important, as is the getting specialized feed will be a priority. Published at 1:41 p.m. on 14 October 2013. Updated at 16:15, on 14 October 2013 Post navigation - Able to start work - Seafood Politics in the right direction