Chile’s fisheries and aquaculture service, Sernapesca, has declared an area belonging to salmon farmer Cultivos Yadran as an infectious salmon anemia (ISA)-infected zone.
According to the official resolution published on 3 November and signed by Sernapesca Director Alicia Gallardo, Yadran’s Melchor 719 cultivation center located in the Norte area in the Aysén region shall remain classified as an infected zone for a period of three months from the time the farm is completely disinfected and all the fish have been harvested. After that period, the Melchor center, which currently has approximately 108,000 fish, will be considered as a surveillance zone for at least two years.
At the end of October, Sernapesca reported that it had notified Cultivos Yadran of suspected ISA virus at the Melchor 719 farming center, and that it was implementing preventive surveillance and control measures as called for in the official guidelines and upping surveillance to monitor the area's production centers. It then received positive sample of the sequencing, corresponding to ISA HRP19a virus, classified on List 2 of High Diseases Risk.
Yadran’s other concessions in the area were also declared as a surveillance zone and Sernapesca ordered all farming centers in the area to carry out a sampling according to the regulatory sanctioned program within a period of seven days.
Puerto Montt-based salmon farmer Yadran saw record-high harvests in 2019 of 28,053 metric tons (MT), of which 25,813 MT were exported. It aims to produce 30,000 MT by 2021.
Photo courtesy of Cultivos Yadran
