October 20,  2020

Skretting: Pincoy Project to launch good practice manual for Chile's salmon sector

A free webinar -- a collaborative initiative led by AquaGen, Blumar, Camanchaca, Centrovet, Cermaq, Pharmaq and Skretting -- will launch a good practice manual for the Chilean salmon farming industry today.

The webinar is open to all audiences.

During the session, members of the Pincoy Project -- an initiative created in 2016 to reduce the use of antibiotics in the Chilean salmon farming industry by implementing high sanitary and animal welfare standards and promoting operational excellence throughout all the productive chain -- will introduce the manual for the Chilean industry.

The manual presents a series of practices that are possible to carry out throughout the production salmon cycle, from the egg to the growing stages in seawater, with the purpose of contributing towards sustainable growth of the salmon industry by improving fish health and welfare standards.

"The good practice manual has been a great collaborative effort of a large group of specialists of the highest quality from the seven companies that take part in Pincoy, in order to share with the industry their experience and know-how. This manual will be available to the whole salmon industry and we hope it will help as a guide for educational and research organisations and the general community interested in developing salmon farming in a responsible and sustainable way," said Alexander Jaramillo, project coordinator of Pincoy.

The launch event will also feature talks by international speakers addressing production trends of salmon industries worldwide.

- Skretting