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 A cost/benefit study of improving environmental standards will be demanded from Norwegian companyThe proposal will be presented in Oslo on Monday, at Marine Harvest’s Annual General Meeting.
The proposal will be presented this week in Oslo, at Marine Harvest Annual General Meeting, the biggest salmon farm company both globally. To this activity will attend representatives from Ecoceanos and Union leaders from Chile, scientists and an Indian chief from Canada and a Scottish scientist. The delegation is hosted by Norges Naturvernforbund (Friends of the Earth Norway) and coordinated by Pure Salmon Campaign. - We want that shareholders request the board a study of the relative costs and benefits of resolving their serious sanitary problems in Chile; improve their environmental management operations at the fish farms; and to incorporate alternative technologies”, said the veterinary doctor, Juan Carlos Cardenas, Ecoceanos’ Director. - It is necessary to compare these results with what would mean expanding - both productive and geographically - farming operations into fragile channels and fjords of the southern regions of Aysén and Magallanes, he added. - The Norwegian government must take immediate measures to ensure that Marine Harvest branch in Chile do not continue operating in a way that would not be tolerated in Norway; that is affecting our environment; aquatic sanitary patrimony; workers and local coastal communities, said the veterinarian to Ecoceanos News before leaving Chile Marine Harvest is the main salmon company involved at the ISA outbreak in Chile; of 21 fish farm centres affected at the national level, 13 are from Norwegian owned companies. Nine Marine Harvest Chile S.A centres and four from Mainstream-Cermaq have been affected by the disease that continues expanding to the adjacent Region of Aysén. That situation caused the closing of fishing processing plants and fish farm centres, with the immediate laid off of thousands of workers. The ISA outbreak has meant - among other issues - the falling of 3.9% of the production volume and 12% of the Chilean salmon exports. The environmentalists, union leaders and scientists will hold meetings with governmental officers, decision makers, citizens’ organisations, entrepreneurs and members of the diplomatic corps during their stay in Norway.
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