The Secrets of Patagonian Aquaculture: At Salmon Trout, Chilean Walter Bravo works to avoid repeating mistakes from his country,

When Walter Bravo received the invitation from the Salmon Trout team to cross the mountain range and visit their aquaculture project located in the Alicurá reservoir, shared by the provinces of Río Negro and Neuquén, that expert in trout production from Chile did not think he would end up staying. "I found ideal and rarely seen conditions. Something so clean, so pure, is no longer seen," Bravo said in conversation with Bichos de Campo, three years after that trip. Coming from an industry like Chile's, whose scale places it as the second world producer of salmonids, with 1,200,000 tons per year, Argentina's seems incipient by comparison. But this is not necessarily a bad thing, since in countries that lead world production rankings (such as Chile and Norway), mistakes in pursuit of growth were numerous. "Just like in many parts of the world, in Chile we made many mistakes, in several cases due to lack of knowledge. The Argentine product is different by being antibiotic-free. There, ...