Pesquera Landes has set its sights on salmon farming. (Photo: Pesquera Landes / FIS)
Pesquera Landes projects 50 pct growth in four years
(CHILE, 2/23/2010)
Executives of the company Pesquera Landes, dedicated to jack mackerel, sardine and anchovy production, are poised to take on new business opportunities, such as entering the salmon farming industry.
Although Chilean salmon farming has faced serious sanitary, labour and economic challenges since 2007, due to outbreaks of the infectious salmon anaemia (ISA) virus, executives project a new opportunity for growth.
According to Andres Fosk, commercial manager of Pesquera Landes and son of Eduardo Fosk, a partner of the company, entering the salmon industry “will allow us to grow 50 per cent in four years and [we could] hopefully double the current invoicing in seven years.”
Pesquera Landes is owner of three salmon farm concessions located to the south of Melinka (with a production capacity of 7,500 tonnes), which were bought in October 2009 from Norway’s Providencia Fish Farming.
For April 2010, the company plans to sow the first centre in sea water and in November, the second.
The project consists of sowing trout and later Atlantic salmon, La Tercera reports.
Meanwhile, Eduardo Bohorodzaner, general manager of the company, estimates that the first trout harvest will total 2,500 tonnes by mid 2011 and will allow them to grow 15 per cent that year.
In terms of sales last year, the executive said “they grew to the tune of 15 per cent, in comparison to 2008, for which we invoiced USD 52 million. This was due to an increase in wild capture fishing levels, better fishmeal prices, a favourable exchange rate and falling fuel costs.”
“Exports, which surpass 60 per cent of our business, were mainly in the direction of the Asian market as well as the African and they rose in 2009. In fact, fishmeal and fish oil shipments absorbed poor results in local sales, caused by the ISA virus that affected the production of salmon and trout in Chile,” Bohorodzaner added.
In addition, he mentioned that they anticipate a good year “for there are indications that fish-farming will have more salmon and trout, therefore, there will be a growth in the sale of our marine foods. As far as the wild capture area, its behaviour will depend on how far the fishing zone is to the coast,” Estrategia reports.
Finally, the coordinator of the government’s Salmon Table, Felipe Sandoval, dismissed reports that the salmon farming industry will fire some 5,000 direct workers from March to June 2010.
"The layoffs that will take place from March to June of this year will involve temporary jobs, and the phenomenon is carried out every year. Namely because the harvest of salmon coho is effected between December and March, and firms hire personnel for a fixed term. It’s not that 25 per cent of the industry is being reduced, but rather it is something natural,” Sandoval affirmed.
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