Argentina: Rainbow trout is exported for the first time from Neuquén to the United States

The Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries of the Nation informs that the first export, from the Neuquén airport to the United States, of 5,000 kilos of frozen rainbow trout, produced with the highest quality and health standards, from aquaculture, was completed. at Piedra del Águila. The export from the national territory is one of the axes of management of the Minister of Economy, Sergio Massa, to promote an activity that is carried out in 14 provinces of the country, with another 5 in accession treatment, and that multiplied its volume and markets in the last two and a half years, with exports that have increased significantly in 2022, and with a projection that seeks to reach more than 100,000 tons in a few years, adding to fish production, the cultivation of shellfish such as mussels in much of Patagonia south that its first harvest will soon be announced. The Undersecretary of Fisheries and Aquaculture, Carlos Liberman, highlighted in this regard that "it is very ...