Argentina reaffirms its sanitary status in the production of salmonids in Northern Patagonia

BUENOS AIRES - Every year, Argentina produces around 6,000 tons of aquatic species through aquaculture: of this total, approximately 75% corresponds to rainbow trout; then there is the breeding of pacu and, to a lesser extent, that of surubí, oysters, carp, boga, shad and tilapia. Precisely, within the framework of the International Day of Aquaculture, the National Service of Health and Agri-Food Quality (Senasa) highlights the importance of this activity - governed by the implementation of various methods for the breeding of a wide variety of aquatic animals - both for its potential for national production and for its contribution to food and nutritional security of people. The organization also recalls the recent update of Argentina's self-declaration of being free of notifiable diseases affecting salmonids, a productive area that includes all the bodies of water that make up the upper and middle basin of the Limay River up to the hydroelectric dam of the Piedra del Águila ...