SERNAPESCA will control the whole mortality withdrawal process from the shipwrecked vessel. (Photo: Sernapesca)

SERNAPESCA oversees withdrawal of 200 tonnes of dead salmon from casualty wellboat

CHILE
Tuesday, October 24, 2017, 01:20 (GMT + 9)

The National Fisheries and Aquaculture Service (SERNAPESCA) is monitoring the salmon mortality withdrawal work from the wellboat Seikongen, which recently shipwrecked in the sector of Bahía Terao, Ensenada Ahoní, while transporting around 200 tons of live salmon.

This was detailed by the regional director of the agency, Eduardo Aguilera, who said that the maneuvers are under development after receiving the contingency plan prepared by the companies in charge.

The official explained that the plan was "accepted with observations", so that the Service will monitor the development of operations.

In addition, he said that SERNAPESCA's mission during this procedure is to avoid an impact in the surrounding area, especially in natural banks as in farming centres.

Faced with the presence of massive mortality, SERNAPESCA is implementing the action plan implemented last year through Resolution No. 8561. For this reason, the measures "must be adopted in peremptory terms - which is being complied with - and obviously despite the complexity of the withdrawal of mortality since the ship is overturned, it has to be removed and they have committed to do through the reports they presented yesterday," Aguilera emphasized.

The governor of the province of Chiloé, René Garcés, stressed that public agencies have been present from the first moment in the area, "to assure families that everything is being carried out according to the established protocols."

SERNAPESCA is collecting background information permanently on-site through three teams. Likewise, it is geo-refining the area's cultivation centres and obtaining samples in order to give organoleptic information while constantly evaluating possible non-compliances and the effects on the environment surrounding the sinking site.

The sinking vessel was completing its salmon loading operations from the Pilpilehue farming centre in Camanchaca, located in the sector of Ensenada Ahoni, south of the Yal canal in the province of Chiloé.

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