It is funded by Corfo and carried out by a team of professionals from UCN. Among its key collaborators is the Chinquihue Foundation.
A productive visit was the one carried out by Alex Poblete, manager of the "Technological Program for the development and sustainable scaling of the Japanese oyster resource cultivation"Pacific oyster)" - also known as Japanese Oyster PTEC-, to the Los Lagos region, an opportunity when he visited the premises of Chinquihue Foundation in the city of Puerto Montt, an institution that is a co-executor of this important program driven by the Corporation for the Promotion of Production (Corfo).
Accompanied by the researchers German Lira and Jesus López Carvallo, Poblete held a fruitful meeting with the general manager of Fundación Chinquihue, Óscar Leibbrandtas well as with Javier Valencia, Deputy Manager of Innovation and Development, and Jorge Tillería, head of hatchery that the institution has.
After the meeting, the delegation made a visit to various areas in dependencies of the aforementioned entity. After visiting the sales office of Commercial Chinquihue, they went to know the infrastructure that has the room of prototyping of products of the sea, Ruka Iyael, to finish with a tour of the seed production center.
After the visit, Poblete highlighted the importance of Fundación Chinquihue as co-executor of this important technological program of Corfo: "Fundación Chinquihue has a trajectory of more than 35 years working with small-scale fish farmers."
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He assured that "it was a surprise to see the level of progress in the context of the programme. The truth is that I expected to find less progress, as we had some differences with respect to the start times of operations prior to the visit. I'm leaving. as per with what has been seen."
By their part, Javier Valencia said that this approach "was very relevant because it allows us to coordinate and move forward on some of the programme's own actions."
In the same vein, the professional of Fundación Chinquihue said that "what I consider essential of the visit was to deliver a vision of our mission within what is small-scale aquaculture; this to share and make decisions about the success of this important project."
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Programme
The Japanese Ostra PTEC is led by the Aquaculture Department of the Faculty of Marine Sciences (FCN) of the Catholic University of the North (UCN) and includes a portfolio of five projects, with which it is expected to produce larvae and Japanese oyster seeds of quality standardized.
These resources will be produced in different Cultivation centres in the north and south of the country, including hatchery Chinquihue Foundation.
In this way it is sought to realize a technology transfer effective for the production of this listed product to small-scale fish farmers, as well as in Benthic Resource Management Areas (AMERBs) and crop cultivation enterprises molluscs.
The programme covers: eight regions throughout the national territory and seeks to make progress towards the sustainability and diversification of the national aquaculture industry, strengthening communities for these productive activities and the economy national.
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*Photos: Miguel Negrón Oyarzo.
