Small-scale aquaculture is an activity in permanent growth in the country.
According to Subpesca data, there are 939 registered holders (natural persons, companies,
OPA, indigenous communities), of which 20% represent women and 80% to
men, totaling 1,112 cultivation centers.

The advances of the FIPA project for Strategic Planning for Small Scale Aquaculture
Escala (APE) in the medium and long term were recently presented at the Undersecretariat
of Fishing. For the first time, various institutions were called upon to generate a work
intersectoral with a view to developing and consolidating a roadmap for the development of this
activity. Among the members of this participatory body, the teams of
Subpesca, Sernapesca, Indespa, General Directorate of Waters, Corfo and the governments
regional.

The central objective of this project - where the technical partner is the Institute for Promotion of
Fisherman (IFOP) - is to develop a strategy with an ecosystem approach for the development
from APE, identifying the areas for improvement and potential of the sector for the
lifting of medium and long term objectives and actions.

Within the main advances of this initiative, the development - between March and
april - of four cycles of workshops across the six territories defined at national level. Likewise,
currently, the second cycle of workshops is being carried out involving
regional institutions, researchers, and small-scale aquaculturists; where already
has raised information on the diagnosis of APE, according to the local reality and the
different perspectives for the development of the mission and vision of the strategic planning.

At national level, small-scale aquaculture is a permanent activity
growth. According to data from Subpesca, there are 939 registered holders (persons
companies, OPA, indigenous communities), of which 20% represent
women and 80 per cent men, totaling 1,112 cultivation centres.

In addition, it is noted that 60 per cent of the holders registered in the national register of
(in charge of Sernapesca) are APE and in addition, 28% of the centers registered in
the national aquaculture register at national level is APE.