SalmonChile seeking help from New Brunswick
Joel Leal, a technical consultant with SalmonChile’s Intesal (Instituto Técnico de Salmón) is paying a visit to New Brunswick to learn how the Canadians got their problem with ISA under control. According to the Telegraph-Journal Canada’s salmon farming industry suffered dearly from ISA for a period of 10 years from 1996 to 2006. Together with Canadian government officials and staff from Cooke Aquaculture, Leal’s mission is to visit aquaculture (salmon farming) research centers and salmon production facilities, to learn about biosecurity and breeding practices; especially the practice of disease screening. “We are visiting broodstock facilities to see about the health situation and the screening for disease. Our goal is to know in detail the risk we’ll be presenting with these eggs to the Chilean industry,” states Leal.
