Puchi claims for supplementary regulation
He believes that the enactment of the General Law on Fisheries and Aquaculture (LGPA) “is an important step forward but is far away from answering what the industry looked at as an initial change (…) for example, the industry is still confined to the Appropriate Areas for Aquaculture (AAA), which are very limited and maintain the same distance between concessions than before the regulation. There were just marginal changes, hence it is a risk factor not modified. There is a remaining second stage of discussion with essential topics. Lots of norms require readaptation and huge flexibility for their application because they deal with biology and risk factors such as earthquakes and tsunamis”.
Among the areas that need supplementary regulation, he detailed that majority of producers believe that maintaining the current extent of freedom in which the roe importation has operated is an enormous sanitary risk due to the ISA virus, “something that should be part of the regulations to be developed” he said.
According to the financial journal Estrategia, Puchi also commented that Chile will try to recover its lost markets, where it was very competitive, something that in spite of being safer is going to be a slow, hard and expensive process because the new model of production means higher costs to the producer companies. In that sense, he added that “we will have to make significant efficiency efforts”.
