Intervet well represented at Aquasur 2004

15 May 2004

The third AquaSur aquaculture international fair was held in March in the city of Puerto Montt, Chile. This year the exhibition involved the participation of 32 countries, deployed in nearly 266 stands distributed across an area of almost 8.000 M2. There were more than 10,000 visitors during the three days. For the third exhibition running, Intervet Chile’s Aquatic Animal Health Division, also located in Puerto Montt, was present at this important exhibition. This reaffirms the commitment existing to each one of Intervet’s clients and it was welcoming to see that the distinguished Intervet stand was continuously visited by a great number of clients and friends that, as always, showed a great interest in the products, research and service activities carried out by Intervet both in Chile and around the world. 
In addition to the whole Intervet Chile team (Andrés Engelbreit, Oscar Parra, Sergio Vásquez, Juan Pablo López and Valeria Gallardo), several senior Intervet staff were in Chile for AquaSur and other meetings: Alistair Brown, Director, Intervet AAH Division, The Netherlands; Dr. Eric Rijke, Director of R&D, Intervet AAH, The Netherlands; Dr. Dag Knappskog, Research Manager, Intervet Norbio, Norway; Dr. Luc Grisez, Research Manager, Intervet Singapore; and Jorgen Jorgensen DVM, General Manager, Intervet Canada. 

The presence of these multinational AAH specialists allowed for some excellent external and internal meetings, the primary objective being toward the development innovative products for the aquaculture market in Chile. Intervet realizes the current importance of the Chilean industry; added to its dynamic growth, it is also the recent appearance of several important diseases like (atypical) vibriosis (see related article in this newsletter), streptococcosis and furunculosis. However, rickettsiosis in salmon continues to be the most economically-important disease where there is still no effective tool for prevention. 

Salmonid production in Chile in recent years