SalmonChile Donates $500 Million To Earthquake Campaign
CHILE - The Chilean Salmon Industry Association (SalmonChile) has donated a large sum of money the campaign ChileChile, which will help victims of the recent ea...

Looting Is A Major Problem For Chilean Businesses
CHILE - The National Fisheries Sector (SONAPESCA) met yesterday to hold a preliminary assessment of damage from the earthquake and tsunami.

Quake Affects Small Scale Fishermen And Transport
CHILE - An estimated 1,000 boats close to the shore were destroyed by the earthquake last weekend.

Salmon Farmers Assess Earthquake Damage
CHILE - Aquaculture companies with operations in Chile are reporting minimal or no damage after an 8.8-magnitude earthquake left more than 700 people dead.

Status On Cermaq's Operations In Chile
CHILE - The impact on Cermaq’s operation in Chile from the earthquake is mainly related to the operations in Coronel where EWOS has around 250 employees in its feed...

Pesquera Landes Will Start Producing This Year
CHILE - In spite of the current crisis faced by the local salmon industry Pesquera Landes will start producing salmon this year with an expected Rainbow trout harvest...

SalmonChile Anticipates Layoffs
CHILE - SalmonChile has predicted that five thousand direct employees may lose their jobs.

Norway Threatens Chile Export Market
CHILE - As of November 2009 Norway filled in for 56.7 per cent of the Chilean salmon exports to US, the second largest market for the local producers after Japan....

Salmon Exports Fall
CHILE - Salmon exports reached US$ 2,029.5 million in 2009 representing a 12.59 per cent decrease compared to US$ 2,322 million exported in the previous year.

Chile Aim To Recapture US Market
CHILE - Although Norweigan salmon exports tripled last year, SalmonChile President Cesar Barros said that Chile will compete and will assert its position as the...

New Regulation to Increase Concessions’ Value
CHILE - The price of concessions are expected to rise when the General Law on Fisheries and Aquaclture becomes law, whether they are indefinite or limited to a 25...

Salmon Exports Exceeded US$ 2.2 Billion In 2009
CHILE - The Chilean salmon industry exported US$ 2,209 million in 2009 representing a 19.76 per cent decrease compared with the US$ 2,753 million exported in the...

Salmon Industry Will Face Hard Times
CHILE - After meeting with the Governor of Aysen, the President of Friosur, Jose Luis del Rio gave a pessimistic review of the salmon industry.

Industrial Production Down 6.7 Per Cent in 2009
CHILE - The Chilean salmon sector has marked a 6.7 per cent decline in production in 2009.

Salmon Harvests Fall
CHILE - Chilean salmonids harvests totalised 354,200 tonnes as of November 2009 representing a downfall of 35.2 per cent compared with the same period of 2008 according...

Chilean Salmon Industry Recovering
CHILE - Mario Montanari, chairman of the producer company Invertec, reveals that there are already some investors getting closer to the Chilean salmon industry....

Salmon Exports to US Drops
CHILE - Between January and November 2009, the Chilean salmon companies sent 39,228 tonnes of fresh farmed salmon fillets to the USA representing a 44.32% decrease...

AquaChile Heads Chilean Salmon Exports
CHILE - Chilean aquaculture companies exported $1.2 billion worth of salmon up to October 2009.

End in Sight for Chilean Salmon Crisis
CHILE - The crisis that has hit the Chilean salmon farming industry over the last year is expected to bottom out during 2010.

Invertec Signs Restructuring Deal for USD 153M
CHILE - The Chilean salmon producer company Invertec Pesquera del Mar de Chiloé signed restructuring deal for USD 153 million with a group of 12 banks. This amount...

Salmon Production Could Fall
CHILE - The Chilean salmon industry has allegedly released less than 30 million Atlantic salmon smolts this year, representing an 82 per cent decrease compared to...

Average Price Of Salmon Increases
CHILE - The average price of salmon exports in October 2009 was US$ 5,421/tonne, representing an 8.9 per cent increase compared to the same period of the last y...

Strong Ties With Salmon
CHILE - The Chilean salmon industry exported nearly US$ 135.6 million in November this year maintaining its position as the main economical activity in the 10th...

Chile Will Still be Number 1 In Japan
CHILE - A smaller Chilean salmon production is expected, which implies lower exports to Japan and also a stronger competition from Norway in frozen salmon and trout....

Companies Receive US$7 Million
CHILE - US$7 million funding has been approved by the the Chilean Economic Development Agency (CORFO) to one producer and two supplier companies: Novofish, Aquastar...