Chile increases the requirement level to create the action plan to face contigencies and incorporates the massive mortality case.

Aquaculture environmental regulations increase demands on farming centres

CHILE
Monday, July 16, 2018, 22:40 (GMT + 9)

The Ministry of Economy, Development and Tourism has modified the Environmental Regulation of Aquaculture (DS N ° 320/01), incorporating the obligation farming centres have to make sure their equipment meets the daily capacity requirements for capture, denaturation and storage of mortality in order to guarantee biosecure treatment systems of said mortality.

The modification of the Regulation increases the demand level for the creation of the action plan against contingencies and incorporates the case of massive mortalities and the actions to be taken against the impossibility of operating the systems or equipment for the capture, denaturation and storage of the mortality.

It also creates the pre-alert and the aquaculture warning to adopt early measures in the face of a natural phenomenon, human action or combined situations that may affect one or more farming centres, which can generate massive mortalities, specimen escapes during farming, detachment of farming structures, negative effects on hydrobiological resources, human health or the environment.

The declaration of pre-alert or aquaculture alert will lead to the adoption of a series of control measures by the National Fisheries and Aquaculture Service (SERNAPESCA).

The measures that can be adopted by SERNAPESCA include: instructing the coordinated withdrawal and disposal of mortalities; requiring the performance and delivery of the physical-chemical analyzes to the mortality that are requested by the Service; instructing the harvest or elimination of specimens in farming or stockpiling; instructing and/or authorizing the transfer of live specimens in order to avoid their mortality; instructing the implementation of environmental and/or oceanographic monitoring actions in the affected sector; restricting the entry and maintenance of hydrobiological species and/or stopping farming activities, stockpiling or slaughter centres; requiring the centres to provide the necessary information for adequate decision making. These measures are for accounting and charging the holders involved and the Service will provide the form, terms, conditions and deadlines for compliance.

From the present decree, D.S. N° 151 of 2017, published on Friday, July 13 in the Official Gazette, the harvest centres have 12 months to deliver their action plans to mass salmon mortalities.

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