Chile: Progress is being made in the implementation of the Japanese oyster in the Los Lagos region

A productive visit was made by Alex Poblete, manager of the “Technological program for the development and sustainable scaling of the cultivation of the Japanese oyster resource (Crassostrea gigas)” -also known as PTEC Japanese Oyster-, to the Los Lagos region, when he visited the facilities of the Chinquihue Foundation in the city of Puerto Montt, an institution that is co-executor of this important program. Accompanied by researchers Germán Lira and Jesús López Carvallo, Poblete held a fruitful meeting with Óscar Leibbrandt, general manager of the Chinquihue Foundation, as well as with Javier Valencia, deputy manager of the Innovation and Development area, and Jorge Tillería, head of the hatchery that said institution has. After the meeting, the delegation made a visit to various areas in the facilities of the aforementioned institution. After visiting the sales office of Comercial Chinquihue, they went to see the infrastructure of the prototyping room for seafood products, Ruka ...