INDESPA will take 16 producers from eight regions of the country, who will present the best of their marine ventures at this important Latin American gastronomic festival..

Fishermen and women, and for the first time small-scale aquaculturists, will be present in the Latin American food festival Ñam Santiago with a tasty marine larder that will shape La Caleta Ñam including producers and producer from Arica to Quemchi, in Chiloé, also passing through Juan Fernández island.

Under the slogan Eñamórate, the twelfth edition of the Ñam festival will take place in Padre Hurtado Park, between the 28th and 30th of March, where in addition to La Caleta Ñam there will be more than a hundred producers from different regions in the Ñam Market, various restaurants and bars, international guests and various activities around gastronomy.

The national director of INDESPA, Leonardo Llanos Huerta, participated on Wednesday in the launch of the event together with the director of INDAP, Santiago Rojas, and the Undersecretary of Agriculture, Ignacia Fernández Gatica, highlighting that this year the institute doubled the spots with sixteen stands for La Caleta. We know how important it is for our marine producers to bring their resources directly to Santiago, which concentrates half of the national market. Through this Marine Markets program, we support the opening of new sales channels, but also bring the wealth of Chile's marine larder, and its artisanal fishermen and women, closer to final consumers. Soon, we will have a new call for participation for two other fairs in Valparaíso and Santiago, emphasized Llanos.

The sixteen representatives of La Caleta Ñam were selected by the National Institute for Sustainable Development of Artisanal Fisheries and Small Scale Aquaculture, INDESPA, through the Markets of the Sea competition, which in addition to financing the stand, transfers, stay and logistics, provides technical support, with trainings on tax and health matters, business plan, marketing, sales strategies and wheel business, all of it to strengthen this business experience.

INDESPA, since its creation in 2019, has been present at the festival Ñam and this year, for the first time, it incorporates small-scale aquaculture, through the association of divers and fishermen of Tongoy, which will offer North ostion in fresh and medium shell, and of the aquecultora Polinia Mansilla Navarro, who will arrive directly from the Caleta Tubildad in Quemchi, to sell its snacks, choritos and holgas dehydrated and smoked, dehydrated seafood ready to cook, dehydrated piure and marine seasonings.

Variety

Other exponents will arrive from the region of Arica and Parinacota, with the artisanal fisherman Claudia Soto, who will offer frozen octopus, dehydrated piure and urchin, snack of palometa and flavored salt. Also the union of divers and related branches of the Taltal caleta, in the region of Antofagasta, will bring the best of his basket with mad and octopus, fresh hedgehogs, and fillets of fish and lapas, while Alejandro Morozin, of the caleta Coquimbo, will have shrimps and prawns in IQF format.

Cumberland Bay of Juan Fernández, Valparaiso, will be present with the fisherman Daniel González, who will bring directly from the island to Santiago, the local seal products such as lobster in frozen format, breca, glass, cod, Juan Fernández horse mackerel and golden crab meat.

The region of O ́Higgins, meanwhile, will have four exponents of the communes of Pichilemu and Christmas, which will bear as seal the added value with seaweed. The cove fishing cooperative Los Piures de Punta de Lobos will have a cochayuyo snack with honey, garlic, merkén and oregano, as well as chopped cochayuyo and flour, piure seasoning and toasted luche snack. The Co-operative Labor The Arch of Pichilemu, will offer cochayuyo in mesh, cut, natural cochayuyo crocantes and the format in julian cut, ideal for salads and gourmet preparations, and the Federation of artisanal fishermen, seaweeds and divers of Christmas will have flours of cochayuyo, of luche, luga and zucchini, besides algae in formats cut, pen and frost and dehydrated. Next to the alguos will also be the fisher pichilemino Felipe Vásquez, with his family entrepreneurship that offers meat and lemon jaiba tweezers, as well as frozen jaiba cake.

Further south, from the Lenga cove in Biobío, the artisanal fisherman Jéssica Gutiérrez will offer frozen seafood, meat and jaiba tweezers, navajuelas and piure. La Araucania, will be present with the union of pickers of shore Lafken Malen of Nehuentue caleta that will offer dry cochayuyo, and finally, from Puerto Montt, in The Lakes, will be the union of artisanal fishermen growers Anahuac and Copermontt Cooperative, with southern hake, golden conger, assorted seafood, renet, mad and canned octopus. The trade union Manos de Mar de Isla Tenglo, with navajuelas, assorted seafood, choritos and jaiba tweezers in IQF format, and the artisan producer Mirna Ruiz Hernández de Maullin will surprise with its canned mad, octopus and smoked pejerrey, besides Cochayuyo.