About 150 participants, including workers from the artisanal fishing industry, the salmon farming and mussel farming industries, and members of indigenous communities, gathered to present their views and address the impacts of the activity in the territory.
The importance of the proper development of Small-Scale Aquaculture, aquaculture in managed areas and the need to ensure the development of the industry and the generation of jobs, were some of the topics addressed in two new participatory workshops on the way to a General Aquaculture Law, held in the cities of Castro and Quellón of the Great Island of Chiloe, in the Los Lagos Region.
These instances, called by the Fisheries and Aquaculture Subsecretariat (Subpesca)They had a high participation and took place at the Hotel Diego de Almagro in Castro and at the Club Deportivo Torino in Quellón, respectively. They brought together about 150 people, including union leaders from the aquaculture industry, representatives of service companies, of indigenous peoples from the territory, of the salmon farming industry and artisanal fishermen.
Among the authorities present was the presence of the regional economic minister of Los Lagos, Luis Cárdenas; the zone director of Subpesca of the Los Lagos region, Juan Alberto Millaquén; the Head of Cabinet of the Directorate of Fisheries and Aquaculture, Javier Rivera; Head of the Sub-fishing Aquaculture Division, Constance Silva; and in charge of the Management and Policy Unit of the Sub-fishing Aquaculture Division, Marisol Álvarez. This, in addition to members of the team of the Institute of Aquaculture and the Environment of the Universidad Austral de Chile, of the Headquarters Puerto Montt, have supported the development of these meetings.
Participants agreed on the need to promote the sustainable development of aquaculture in the territories thinking about its contribution to food security and local and national economies. There was also an interest on the part of some attendees to relieve the importance of ancestral users, so that they could make use of the territories.
Following the development of these days, the Chief of Staff of the Undersecretary of Fisheries and Aquaculture, Javier Riverahighlighted the participatory and collaborative spirit of each side. "The participation of the actors in these dialogues, particularly the workers of artisanal fishing, of the communities of native peoples, of the salmon industry and mussel cultivation, has been very important," he said, adding that "to generate this dialogue has been a very fruitful work and it has been possible to collect important lines of work for the proposal for a new Aquaculture Law".
The next workshop This will be done Tuesday, December 3, at the Hotel Courtyard (former Manquehue) in Puerto Montt, and those who wish to participate or have doubts can contact the mail leyacuicultura@uach.cl.
