Chile’s Secretariat of Fisheries and Aquaculture (Subpesca) announced modifications to the country’s sea lice control program. The move was prompted by an increase in lice levels in the Aysen and Los Lagos farming regions during July.
The sustained increase in sea lice at salmon farms is due to oceanographic and environmental conditions and the lower efficacy of the treatments currently used by the aquaculture industry, Subpesca said.
The modifications are aimed at encouraging those centers with high levels of lice, those placed on the high monitoring or control list, to reduce their biomass in a short period of time in order to improve conditions at the site, and to encourage companies to use...
