These measures form part of SERNAPESCA’s strategy to step up monitoring and prevention of high-risk diseases in trout, Atlantic and coho salmon, SERNAPESCA aquaculture head Alicia Gallardo said in a seminar last week in Temuco.
There will be “100 percent controls of disinfection of ova from countries with infectious salmon anemia (ISA) and pancreas disease (PD), along with rigorous monitoring and official sampling of fish farming (alevin stage), with the corresponding subsequent followup,” she said.
Based on data from the Fisheries Undersecretariat, Chile, as of May, imported around 101.3
