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Farmed salmon. (Photo: Stock File)
USD 45 million to be invested on land-based salmon farm
CHILE
Friday, July 13, 2018, 23:00 (GMT + 9)
Company Bordemar-Tumbes SpA plans to invest USD 45 million to raise salmon in land-based facilities in the Bio Bio region.
The project, "Salmon raising and fattening on land ponds", would be developed in Fundo Lo Alfaro, on the way to Caleta Tumbes, minicipality of Talcahuano, and was already presented in the Environmental Assessment Service (SEA) for assessment.
The initiative includes the construction, implementation and operation of a land-based recirculation fish farm that would have a lifespan of four decades. The objective is to produce about 4,000 tonnes annually in 51 ponds to raise specimens of at least five kilos.
"The main characteristic of this concept design of fish farming is the fact of recirculating a high percentage of 99.8 per cent of the water used in the process, with no disposal of industrial liquid waste to water courses or the ocean, thus transforming a clean, non-polluting and sustainable technology. Notwithstanding the foregoing, given that the system generates water losses due to evaporation and the content of sludge, the system will be replaced in the order of 130 m3 per day," the company explained.
The process of incubation at first feeding would be done within the farming facilities, in a separate and isolated room using compact modules and trays of first feeding.
The farm in which the fish centre would be located is privately owned and is currently in disuse, and according to the company, "it has good physical and territorial conditions for the development of the project."
In addition, it was taken into account that the Bío Bío Region concentrates a large part of the economic and industrial activities of the southern zone. There are a large number of fishing and processing companies "that allow the slaughter and processing of salmon, within a few hours of being harvested," the company justified.
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