At the Seafood Expo Global Barcelona 2024, the organization announced the initiative Chilean Salmon Antibiotic Reduction Program (CSARP)with its work to reduce the use of antibiotics and which, in addition, seeks to recognize Chilean farmed Atlantic salmon companies for their concrete and consistent actions in pursuit of this goal.
In 2019, Monterey Bay Aquarium signed a collaboration agreement with SalmonChile to launch the CSARP program. Through this initiative, the union’s companies committed to reducing the use of antibiotics by 50% by 2025. Although it established itself as a model of transparency and cooperation, its evaluation revealed that faster action is needed. For this reason, the second phase of this agreement was presented. Its founding members are: Australis Seafoods, Blumar, Camanchaca, Cermaq, Cooke Chile, Multi X and Nova Austral.
It should be noted that these companies together produce approximately half of all Atlantic salmon farmed in Chile – they aim to reduce the use of antibiotics by 50% by 2025 and, through this initiative, they also commit to regularly sharing their individual data to continue your progress. Furthermore, it is expected that more and more firms will join this initiative in the future.
Faced with this, the vice president of the Global Ocean Conservation Aquarium, Jennifer Dianto, indicated that, “to address the growing demand of those who consume salmon in the United States and, at the same time, mitigate threats to the environment and human health, the CSARP+ initiative encourages companies to act by granting individual and name recognition to those that have high performance. This, with the expectation that companies that source from Chile choose to do so with their products.”
For his part, the president of SalmonChile, Arturo Clément, states that “the salmon sector, led by us and always with the support of Intesal, has promoted transparency in antibiotic use data since the first sustainability report in 2016. In this way, always with the idea of moving forward in improving the gaps we have, the agreement with the Monterey Bay Aquarium arose and the Chilean Salmon Antibiotic Reduction Program was executed. We must not forget that the use is made under the concept of animal health and international regulations, in addition to the fact that we have the highest standards for the consumer. This is another example of the perseverance and commitment to improvement that is driving national salmon farming on its path towards a more sustainable productive sector.”
Photography: SalmonChile
