There are many arguments about whether catch and release fishing helps to protect trout. Personally, while it is only part of what is needed, I think it is useful in helping to preserve this species. There exist detractors, though, that are not in agreement and say that to return the fish to the water is of little value. Good ideas can have all kinds of tastes sometimes.
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La Región de Magallanes enfrenta un desafío mayor: resistir la llegada masiva de proyectos de producción salmonera en, quizás, la última oportunidad de sobrevivir que tiene la Industria que colapsó ambiental y socialmente a las Regiones de Los Lagos y de Aysén, en pos de un “éxito” que desapareció entre Julio y Diciembre del año 2007, como efecto de la epidemia del virus ISA.
The news about the miners trapped in the San Jose mine in the Copiapo area has kept all of us in suspense. Together with that has come a challenge to the enforcement of existing safety problems in mining. 
In early September, an 
This “plan” has become just one more of the already hundreds of Patagonian myths. Never the less, inventing stories about little known mysterious places will always bear fruit, and there will be many dreamers and innocents who will buy them. Apparently, fantasy is more entertaining than fact. Some years ago there were famous Patagonian myths about dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures that made it to the front pages of the Argentinean press. This mythology has even been used for political ends, such as the conveniently publicized inaugurations of the “Austral Highway” at some concrete bridge, so that further to the north people come in summer to visit Aisén expecting to find a paved motorway. Certainly, in recent decades, myths have been added and disseminated as a means of marketing by the promoters of some megaproject or other.
Todavía no me repongo del asombro que me provocó leer la primera entrevista que le realizó El Mercurio al flamante embajador de la hermana República de Chile en la Argentina, Adolfo Zaldívar, donde declara: "Si se hacen las hidroeléctricas en Aysén, sería factible que la línea transmisora venga por Argentina." De esta forma Zaldívar confiesa un plan que estarían urdiendo los gobiernos de ambos países para encontrarle una salida a la confrontación que mantiene en vilo a toda la Patagonia: el intento de construir entre 5 y 19 mega represas hidroeléctricas desde Aysén hasta el Río Puelo.
