📋 Tender Overview
Between November 28 and 29, the first regional drill for massive salmon mortality and other environmental contingencies was carried out, an activity whose purpose was to verify the regional response capacity of public and private organizations in the face of a possible environmental contingency resulting from Harmful Algal Bloom ( FAN).
The exercise began with a disaster risk management committee, where the Seremis of Health, Environment, Energy, Economy, Transport and Housing participated; in addition to representatives of the different institutions that make up the Interinstitutional Committee on Environmental Contingencies (CIICA), which include the Superintendence of the Environment (SMA), the Undersecretariat of Fisheries (Subpesca), the Chilean Navy, the National Fisheries Service and Aquaculture (Sernapesca), SENAPRED and the Fisheries Development Institute (IFOP).
Meanwhile, the Commander in Chief of the Fifth Naval Zone, Commodore Alejandro Torres, explained that this drill "will make us all think and look for solutions, as well as identify gaps or problems and have the time to correct them."
In the event, the Regional Presidential Delegate of Los Lagos, Giovanna Moreira, indicated that “what we seek with this exercise is to have a more prepared State and better articulated institutions to be able to respond to possible environmental contingencies due to harmful algae blooms in the region of Los Lagos. The lakes".
Finally, the regional director of Sernapesca, Cristian Hudson, commented that this was an “interesting and necessary activity, in order to be able to generate all the preventive coordination to manage in the best possible way, both in our role as a State and in the company itself. industry, the contingencies that may eventually occur.”
This activity is added to the information and dissemination process that the CIICA of the Los Lagos region began in October, to publicize the proactive work that different public institutions are carrying out to face the possible consequences of the El Niño phenomenon. which, according to various scientists, will arrive this summer season.
