Milestone for Argentine aquaculture: The first 5 tons of rainbow trout raised in Piedra del Águila were exported

Published Jun 22, 2023

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Argentina has successfully exported the first shipment of 5,000 kilos of frozen rainbow trout to the United States, marking a significant milestone in its aquaculture industry. This achievement is made possible by the new facility built by the Chilean company Idris Patagonia-Mar Andino in Piedra del Águila, which has created 200 jobs and aims to expand its production to 15,000 tons by 2030. The project, which started with the importation of fish eggs from Denmark in 2019, has received support from local and national authorities and has already reached a production of 3,000 tons. The company's investments and the broader efforts to expand aquaculture in Argentina are praised for their potential to generate foreign currency and create jobs.

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The Ministry of Agriculture highlighted that the first export was completed, from the Neuquén airport of the first 5,000 kilos of frozen rainbow trout to the United States. The fish were raised, fattened and slaughtered in the brand new aquaculture facility of the Chilean company Idris Patagonia-Mar Andino in the Piedra del Águila reservoir. The construction of the fish processing plant in Piedra del Águila began in March 2022 in the Corredor Productivo del Viento. It is a plant with a covered area of almost 1,000 square meters, which provides services for slaughter, gutting, filleting, and maintenance of frozen merchandise. It currently employs 200 workers, most of them women and from the Piedra del Águila area and surroundings. By 2030, the goal is to reach a production of 15,000 tons with a plant with 400 direct employees. The idea is to consolidate a rainbow trout export pole. The magnitude of the project is obvious if one takes into account that Argentina has only produced ...

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