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Chile s salmon farmers, suppliers increasingly focusing on environmental sustainability
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Chile s salmon farmers are responding to rising consumer demand for corporate environmental stewardship, a trend they say has accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic.
A number of Chile s top salmon farmers and their suppliers have recently announced steps to make their operations more sustainable, including Salmones Camanchaca, Multiexport Foods, and netting manufacturer Badinotti Group.
Salmones Camanchaca recently signed a two-year fish feed supply agreement with BioMar and Skretting, looking to proactively improve management of the environmental and social risks associated with its value chain. The initiative outlines four specific targets:
Camanchaca, BioMar and Skretting in feed sustainability pledge Chilean salmon producer, Salmones Camanchaca, has signed a standards agreement with leading companies, BioMar and Skretting, with the aim of mitigating the environmental and social risks associated with salmon feed production.
The agreement looks to the fish feed supply over the next two years, and it focuses on reducing GHG emissions, incorporating raw materials that are not linked to deforestation of native forests and on ensuring the greater use of renewable energy.
Camanchaca wants to become carbon neutral by 2025.
Alfredo Tello, sustainability manager at Salmones Camanchaca, said “
feed production is a significant component of the social and environmental footprint of salmon farming, due to the diversity of raw materials and supply chains involved in its production. To actively contribute to the sustainable development of salmon farming, it is essential to work in alliance with our
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