The Secretary of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries of the Nation informs that Brazil approved the sanitary protocol for the entry into its market of the Rainbow Trout variety that is produced in Argentina, mainly in the Patagonian region, and is one of the products from their sustainable aquaculture that continues in constant growth.
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In this regard, the Undersecretary of Fisheries and Aquaculture, Carlos Liberman, stressed that "it gives us great satisfaction to have been able to achieve a new milestone in the development of Argentine aquaculture. We began this path in 2020 building the tools for the expansion of the activity, and today we are already on the way to the opening of numerous markets", and added that "for Argentina, Brazil is undoubtedly a destination that will project a large amount of foreign currency and jobs".
In this direction, the Director of Aquaculture, Guillermo Abdala Bertiche, stated that "we were entrusted with repositioning the aquaculture activity as a source of quality food, foreign currency and jobs throughout the national territory", and concluded that "today we can celebrate this type of measures because we have trusted that this sector was possible to grow, and sustainably".
Likewise, Abdala considered that "we must give great recognition to the enormous work of producers, provincial authorities, SENASA, the Technical Advisory Commission for Aquaculture and a group of actors, who make the activity grow today and generate a new projection scheme in productive terms".
The opening process began on January 7, with the submission of the request for the sanitary requirements and conditions of access to the Brazilian market for human consumption of Trout and by-products from aquaculture, in the presentations of Chilled or Frozen, Butterfly cut or Gutted Whole.
After technical exchanges between the Foreign Ministry, SENASA and the National Directorate of Aquaculture together with their counterparts in Brazil, it was possible to adjust the requirements and conditions between both countries, and an agreement was reached by which a new model of international health certificate was accepted. for the importation of fish and products derived from aquaculture.
Thus, the Brazilian market joins Japan, a fact that demonstrates the constant development and increase in investments that Argentina promotes in the production of proteins derived from fish.
National aquaculture began to be strengthened as of 2020 with the creation of the first National Directorate of Aquaculture and the implementation of the National Aquaculture Fund. Currently it is an item that is carried out in 14 provinces of the country.
It is an activity that doubled its volume and markets in the last two and a half years, with exports that multiplied in 2022 and with a projection that seeks to reach more than 50,000 thousand tons in a few years. ■