New regulations to salmon production in fresh water

According to Alicia Gallardo, the chief of the Aquaculture Unit of Sernapesca, the measures are part of the strategy that this organisation is preparing to strengthen the surveillance and prevention of diseases in trout, Atlantic salmon and coho. The fiscalization and disinfection of eggs from countries with ISA and Pancreas Disease (PD) will be also very strict.

The institutional plan, as a result of a series of modifications to the Sanitary Regulation, incorporates inspections according to the sanitary risk, and contemplates actions to face contingencies In this productive phase, extends the monitorings to other diseases of high risk.

This plan contemplates rest periods of seven days after the desinfection and cleaning of farms (in land). The mortality record and the reason of it, will have to be sent every week to Sernapesca.