Chile Forum

Found this article recently on the Salmon industry in Region X and the pollution they are producing.


http://www.mercopress.com/vernoticia.do ... rmato=HTML

Personally I think they should at least be outlawed on lakes. The ocean is one thing, but to be running fish farms on smaller bodies of water is really bad.

I appreciate the economic impact that the industry has on southern Chile, but one of the big problems is that most of that money never makes it past Santiago.

Maybe they may restrict big operations in lakes, and encourage independent, family owned small firms. With salmons happened a situation similar to big chains of supermarkets or farmacias; they kill the small operations and big companies has more power to negotiate and polute without much control.

I think that a scheme of many small farms producing, feeding big intermediarier specialized in process, shipping and merchandising woul be better than the actual operaions vertically integrated

I know that small ones are even less enviromentally concious, but they are more easy to control because they have less influences and this factor in Chile counts a lot