Fish oil. (Photo: Pesquera Diamante)

'Peru is no longer a reliable supplier of fishmeal and fish oil'

PERU
Friday, June 24, 2016, 02:10 (GMT + 9)

At the level of marine ingredients, Peru has lost leadership in fishmeal production, according to the president of the National Fisheries Society (SNP), Elena Conterno.

"We are first in fishmeal, in oil it is no longer so clear," stated the leader to RPP TV.

"These difficult years have meant that substitutes for fishmeal and fish oil have been sought because Peru has stopped being a reliable supplier of these products," explained Conterno, as Gestión reported.

In SNP president’s opinion, the industry needs 4 million tonnes to be balanced, but in the last five years, only in 2013 that level was exceeded.

She also stressed that Peruvian fishmeal and fish oil industry pays more taxes than that in Chile. In this regard, she said the tax per ton of anchovy reaches around USD 15 per extracted ton, more than what is paid in Chile.

"At the anchovy and horse mackerel level, we are a more important country. They [the Chileans] have salmon farming, which we do not have potential to develop," Conterno pointed out. "However, there is potential for other aspects of aquaculture, which we hope will also be high on the agenda in the next five years," she added.

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