The Global Aquaculture Alliance this week announced the Blumar S.A. is the third salmon company in Chile to achieve three-star Best Aquaculture Practices certification.
Blumar’s processing plant in Concepcion, Chile, recent earned BAP certification, joining the company’s 11 BAP-certified salmon farm sites and the four BAP-certified feed mills from which it sources feed — Biomar Chile S.A.’s Planta Castro and Planta Pargua facilities, EWOS Chile Alimentos and Nutreco Chile S.A.’s Orsorno facility.
Blumar’s 11 farms collectively produce about 4,500 metric tons of salmon per cycle. The fish are marketed in the United States, the EU and Brazil, to both the retail and foodservice markets. Among Blumar’s customers are Walmart, Sam’s Club and Sysco.
“At Blumar we are convinced that all our processors have to be environmentally and socially sustainable, to achieve long-term profitability and project our activity into the future,” said Gerardo Balbontin Fox, Blumar Seafood CEO. “The three-star BAP certification of our integrated salmon-farming operations is solid proof of our commitment to the environment, the neighboring communities and our customers around the world.”
