 At present, scientists from the
Fundacion Chile are setting up a pilot centre in Playa Union (Rawson) to
test different technologies for turbot and red abalone farming. The
regions of Esquel, Rawson, Comodoro Rivadavia and Sarmiento are
considered to be the most suitable areas for developing aquaculture projects,
according to studies presented by Fundacion Chile at a seminar held in Rawson,
Chubut province. After a year-long study, the Chilean institution selected
three species which will be farmed commercially in Chubut: rainbow trout,
red abalone and turbot.
In the latest issue of the Spanish magazine Europa Azul, Mr Alberto
Echauluce Orozco, the magazine's director, makes some comments on
the Federal Fisheries Act which has recently been approved in Argentina. In
the article entitled, "Argentina - adds and continues",
he says, "Argentina takes up the faculty of adopting measures outside
the 200 territorial miles, which is clearly against the present international
law," and "it demands that 75% of the crews onboard Argentina's
vessels must be Argentine nationals." Mr Orozco added:
"For the mixed societies operating in Argentine waters, the crews
must be 50% of Argentine origin. |