400,000 salmon have died in fish farms in Puerto Natales, Chile

An alarming mortality of farmed salmon to date is recorded in the center Quiet Bay 1, Puerto Natales. During the week the company announced Acuimag SA increased from Tuesday, from 10,000 to 400,000 dead fish, approximately.

Sernapesca unable to enter the center by bad weather in the area, even though after necropsy infectious diseases were discarded.

As explained by the Business Unit Manager Services Aquaculture Farm Acuimag SA, Oscar Garay, the cause of death could be explained by a micro algae bloom, which is also called red tide or tidal coffee, natural phenomena, in Here influenced by climatic factors such as El Niño phenomenon changing climate and water temperature. “We are taking contingency measures but not much to do except remove the mortality as quickly as possible with all available means and in coordination and knowledge of the authorities. The losses are still unquantifiable because it is an evolving phenomenon, “he said.

According to reports Sernapesca, samples of the dead to the analysis, results will be announced at the Instituto de Fomento Pesquero (Ifop) Punta Arenas fish will.

Meanwhile, a second center in the same area also began to be affected, corresponding to the center of Bay Quiet II, so it is evaluating emergency measures in other centers in the area.

So far, priority has been given authorization management and removal of mortalities in different ways (cremated, silage and transfer to reducing plants inside and outside the region), all under biosafety conditions supervised by the service and attentive to new cases and research on microalgae, reportedly from Sernapesca.

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