Chile's Ministry of the Environment has a Strategy for Odor Management that includes sector-specific regulations, prioritizing industries like fishing.
In response, Pescadores Industriales del Biobío has established four key actions: providing technical input for regulations, developing best practices, implementing advanced odor control technologies, and engaging with local communities. Effective odor management requires both technological solutions and continuous monitoring of operational practices. Collaboration between the public and private sectors has been crucial in shaping regulations that consider the unique characteristics of fishmeal and fish oil production.
M. Jamett.
Pescadores Industriales del Biobío
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Citation: M. Jamett, 2024, Experience of the industrial fishing sector of the Biobío region in the process of implementing Chile's odor management strategy, ODORA24 Conference, Barakaldo, Spain, www.olores.org.
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Keywords: Fish meal, reduction, best practices, mitigation, communities, public-private collaboration
Abstract
The Ministry of the Environment of Chile has a Strategy for Odor Management in which it is defined to make regulations by sector, prioritizing five productive processes, among which is the fishing industry. In this context, Pescadores Industriales del Biobío has defined 4 lines of action: (1) delivery of technical background to the Ministry of the Environment and the Superintendence of the Environment for the process of elaboration and implementation of the odor emission regulation for plants of reduction, specifically of fishmeal and fish oil, (2) development of a best practices protocol that has allowed the monitoring and control of critical variables of the entire production chain, (3) implementation of the best technologies available for control and odor mitigation in process plants, and (4) permanent work with our neighboring communities to jointly address environmental problems that affect their quality of life. Thus, odor management not only involves the implementation of technologies but there also must be permanent monitoring of operational practices that improve the efficiency of odor mitigation. The dialogue with the Ministry of the Environment has made it possible to share this experience so that the new regulation considers the particularities of fishmeal and fish oil reduction plants. Public-private collaboration has, therefore, been essential to make concrete progress in the implementation of Chile's Odor Management Strategy.
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