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The strategy of f infish culture founding in Chile Masatoshi FUTAGAWA CORDUNAP February 28, 2012 Chile is trading country, concluded a treaty (FTA, EPA, TPP etc.) with 58 counties and exports primary industry materials such as copper ore, fruits and salmon etc. Economic situation of the country grows well and it join OECD in 2010. Salmons and trout exportation grew to 500 thousand ton (2.3 billion USD) in 2007 but there was an outbreak of virus (ISAV) and reduced to less than one half. Also, coastal fish resources decreased much due to overfishing and affect coastal life which is happening all over the world. Thus, it needs alternatives culture species of salmons to minimize risk and recover resource of coastal fish to improve coastal life. The keywords are “Sustainability”, “Minimum contamination” and “Less energy consumption”. I will write what are the needs and how to fish culture founding according to those key words. 1.     Conditions ...

CORDUNAP run project about "Tuna culture at North of Chile" supported by CORFO. We made seminar at Santiago , Puerto montt and Iquique on March 10, 12 and 19 accordingly. My presentation content Chile has advantages those salmon culture industry, fish mill industry and professional divers. Those industries are one of the biggest and high tech in the world. Salmon industry provide cage culture equipment (cages, boats and feeding machines), skilled worker, processing plant, marketing net work and logistics. Fish mill industry provide huge volume of fresh fish, fresh fish mill, fishing equipment (boats, nets, operators and fish mill). In the other hand, tuna habit far from coast, 10 hours by boat, and Japan market, and it is high wave condition. I recommend complete fish culture, not capture-based culture, that rearing hatchery made fry and reproduce next generation from artificial seeds. The culture operate off-shore with submersible cage. The advantages are nutrition c...