At the NGO’s Business Roundtable, the company reaffirmed its commitment to sustainability, collaborating with other companies in the sector and international retailers to plan new challenges in responsible production and health management.
October 2025. As part of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Business Roundtable, Blumar, as part of a delegation from the Chilean salmon farming industry, traveled to the United States as part of its collaboration with the prestigious NGO. The visit aimed to evaluate 6 years of joint work to reduce antibiotic use and define new challenges in sustainability, transparency, and animal welfare.
The meeting marked a new stage within the joint program that seeks to reduce antibiotic use in national salmon farming, an initiative in which Blumar has played a leading role since its inception, contributing information, practices, and results that have allowed Chile to establish itself as an international benchmark in responsible health management.
A key point on the agenda was direct dialogue with major retailers and restaurant chains in the United States. In this space, Chilean representatives presented the sector’s advances in environmental and health management, responding to the growing interest of the North American market in knowing the origin and production standards of the salmon they consume.
In this context, Blumar’s participation reaffirms its leadership in incorporating high environmental and animal welfare standards in its production, as well as its commitment to transparency and international cooperation.
“Almost 5 years since the industry began its collaboration with Monterey Bay Aquarium, with the purpose of reducing antibiotic use in Chilean salmon farming, we have managed to build a transparent working instance between a science-based environmental NGO and our productive sector. The advances in reducing antibiotic use are undeniable, but we are also aware that there is still much to be done; that is why these evaluation instances are fundamental,” highlighted Esteban Ramírez, technical manager of Blumar Salmon.
The Chilean delegation was also composed of the National Service for Fishing and Aquaculture (Sernapesca), SalmonChile, Salmones Camanchaca, Trapananda Seafarms, Australis Seafoods, Cargill, and Nova Austral. The working group made it possible to reaffirm the commitment of participating companies to continuous improvement in sustainability and animal welfare, as well as to strengthen international cooperation links around more responsible and transparent production.
