Arnault Chaperon, who is also with seafood processor Viviers de France, questioned the sustainability behind predictions of a huge boom in tilapia and pangasius farming.
“It’s not sustainable to go from zero to 1.2 million tons in one country in five years within one zone. There’s not one instance in the world where such concentrated exponential growth hasn’t caused problems -- look at Ecuador, Indonesia with shrimp [hit by Taura syndrome and infectious myonecrosis virus respectively] or Chile with infectious salmon anemia (ISA),” Chaperon told IntraFish.
“It’s
