With support from INDESPA, the region was present with five representatives out of a total of sixteen participants from eight regions of the country that shaped La Caleta Ñam.
A positive balance, carried out by the artisanal fishers who represented the Los Lagos region in the latest version of Latin American Gastronomic Festival ÑAM, which brought together more than 27 thousand people around gastronomy, cooking and products with added value from the sea and the Chilean countryside.
With a varied pantry and the richest marine flavours, the region dazzled in La Caleta Ñam the capital's consumers with products such as southern hake, golden croaker, sea urchins, octopus and smoked anchovy in cans, small clams, mussels, piure and smoked and dehydrated chilgos, which attendees could meet and buy directly from fishermen and women of the Artisan Fishermen and Women Cooperative of Puerto Montt, Copermontt; to the "Manos de Mar" union of Isla Tenglo, to fishermen and cultivators of Anahuac cove and to the producers Mirna Ruiz Hernández from Maullín, with her canned goods brand "Demares", and to Polinia Mansilla Navarro, a mussel farmer from Quemchi in Chiloé, who was present through Chiloé Mil Sabores, with her piures, cholgas and choritos in smoked and dehydrated formats.
"People received our products very well, which are dehydrated and smoked ... it was very rewarding when they bought our cockle snacks, opened them and ate them immediately ... our products did very well. Very grateful to INDESPA because they give us the opportunity to show ourselves, to sell and to be able to meet new customers ... we are very happy," celebrated. Polinia Mansilla.
The producers from the region were part of a group of 16 representatives from small-scale fishing and aquaculture in eight regions, who, thanks to the Marine Markets program of the National Institute for the Sustainable Development of Artisanal Fishing and Small-Scale Aquaculture, INDESPA, gained access to stands, transportation and accommodation, as well as advice and training to strengthen their commercialization experience. direct sale of its products.
Mirna Ruiz Hernández, valued the space, highlighting in his case the successful sale of canned mad.
“It’s my star product. Now I want to start with seafood cauldrons and jars of pejerreyes, to innovate, because people are asking me. The management of INDESPA has always been very good guidance... I can only say thank you, because I have been able to disseminate my products, and people are getting to know me. Several people went last year and said to me: “Demares Maullin!, we are happy because their products are very rich”, and also they have asked me for boxes of products to send during the year, so nothing more to say thanks,” he said.
Juan García, spokesman for the cooperative Copermont and of Caleta Anahuac, valued this space where they were able to market southern hake, golden congrio, reneta, among other products.
“INDESPA supported us from the beginning on the theme of the fairs, which has been the formula for getting to sell to Santiago... they have oriented us in knowing how to sell, in how to get to the customer niche we need, to hotels, restaurants looking for the first-hand product and with added value that we deliver to them,” he said.
The gastronomic festival Ñam was extended for three days in the Parque Padre Hurtado de La Reina, in the Metropolitan Region, allowing exhibitors to generate direct revenues that together bordered the seven million pesos, as well as access to business wheels with representatives of restaurants, hotels and sales halls capitalinas, making their products known to new customers.
