Meeting brought together representatives of the Salmon Council, SalmonChile, the Aquaculture Innovation Club, the Gremial Association of mussel producers, AmiChile, and the Gremial Association of Ericeros of the Lakes and Aysén regions.
With the participation of the main guilds of the aquaculture sector, ProChile Los Lagos carried out the Regional Exporting Council 2025, an agency that seeks to coordinate public-private actions and work aimed at boosting regional exports. This time the emphasis was on the international promotion of seafood and associated technologies.
The workshop brought together representatives of the Salmon Council, SalmonChile, the Aquaculture Innovation Club, the Association of mussel producers, AmiChile, and the Gremial Association of Ericeros of the Lakes and Aysén regionsaround an agenda that projects the presence of Chile at the Osaka Expo 2025, where the “Sea Week” between 2 and 7 June.
The Regional Exporting Council focused on how to make the development, innovation and sustainability of the Chilean aquaculture industry visible to demanding markets such as Japanese, highlighting the region as a reliable supplier of marine products and technological solutions for aquaculture.
“It was a very positive experience and we deal mainly with fundamental issues that are happening in our region, both in products from the sea and also with suppliers of the aquaculture industry. We address topics such as the activities carried out in 2024 and what is our big agenda 2025 in participation in fairs, commercial missions and, of course, stands out the Osaka Expo, where we will have our Week of the Sea. The main regional unions in this sector exchanged views on how we are working and how to continue to strengthen the region that is so powerful for this southern macrozone,” said ProChile Regional Director Los Lagos, Ricardo Arriagada.
From the Salmon Council, Pablo Barahona, director of international trade, stressed the strategic value of the Japanese market: “Every five years these great activities are carried out worldwide, and now it is up to Osaka. For us as an industry, we consider it very powerful, especially because in Japan we have the export of our coho salmon, which is unique in the world. That's where we hope to be strong in this week's proposal too. of the Sea, where we can present our attributes. We believe that we have a very important promotional potential abroad.”
Guillermo Roa, vice president of the Gremial Association of Ericeros of the regions of Los Lagos and Aysén, also highlighted the instance: “We appreciate the invitation of ProChile. For us, who export urchin mainly to Japan, this meeting was key, especially for the week of seafood products in Osaka, where the urchin will be one of the main protagonists.”
Rodrigo Carrasco, executive director of AmiChile, appreciated the call and stressed the need for continuity of the council in a challenging economic context. “We are facing important times of instability for exports and therefore a Regional Export Committee where different trade unions meet, in this case associated with exports of seafood is very important. We have concerns and well, besides the concerns there are projects, then it was very important to be able to talk about what comes in terms of projects, fairs, participation, etc.,” he said.
From the world of innovation, Catalina Jiménez, deputy manager of Management and Projects of the Aquaculture Innovation Club, highlighted the integrative vision of the council: “I find it extremely interesting the participation of different representatives of the industry, both at the level of guilds of different industries such as mussels, salmon, hedgehogs, where you can work together by, in the background, the sustainability of these industries and create those synergies and networking in order to empower Chile as an exporting country. On the other hand, ProChile’s role is extremely key to the link between all these industries and to generating a greater presence as it is and will, I am sure, be at this Osaka Fair.”
During the meeting, the Regional Directorate of ProChile Los Lagos presented an overview of the activities carried out for the sector in 2024, as well as planning 2025, highlighting for this year the development of 15 relevant actions, five of which are focused on strengthening the sector of suppliers of the aquaculture industry.
