Chile’s salmon farmers, suppliers increasingly focusing on environmental sustainability
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:
- To formulate diets employing raw materials that have not contributed to native deforestation anywhere in the world.
- To establish greenhouse gas reduction targets under the guidelines from the Science Based Targets initiative.
- To use 100 percent renewable energy.
- To implement the life-cycle analysis method, which selects ingredients for fish diets based on reducing overall environmental impact.
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