Multiexport's Production Decreased In Third Quarter
CHILE - Despite the ongoing repurcussions of the 2008 ISA virus outbreak, Multiexport has managed sales of 9,971 tonnes of salmon and trout raw material (WFE) in...

Salmon Harvests Predicted to Fall in 2010
CHILE - The chairman of AquaChile, Víctor Hugo Puchi, believes that 2010 is going to be the worst year in terms of salmon harvests in Chile, with expected results...

Chilean Government Unties the Fisheries Law
CHILE - After almost 10 months in the pipeline at Congress, the Chilean Government is trying to unleash the fisheries law by narrowing the labour requirements included...

Aquaculture Production in Chile Down 16 Per Cent
CHILE - Total fish and shellfish landings for the first nine months of 2009 were almost 10 per cent below the same period in the previous year. Harvests in all the...

Investment in Chile Hints at Future Recovery
CHILE - Following the near-collapse of the salmon industry, there are the first signs of its recovery as enterpreneurs return to invest in the sector.

Report: Chile's Salmon Industry Hit Hard By ISA
CHILE - A new report has been published on the current status of the country's salmon industry. It highlights especially how infectious salmon anaemia (ISA) has...

AquaChile Invests to Promote Chile's Salmon Health
CHILE - AquaChile has announced that it will invest US$ 11 million in a land-based system to produce healthy salmon eggs and fish for the local market to reduce...

New ISA Regulation Increases Costs by 30 Per Cent
CHILE - Implementation of the new sanitary requirements set up by the companies and the authority to surpass the sanitary crisis caused by the ISA virus will increase...

Chile's Government Will Not Review Concessions
CHILE - The government has refused to review changes to concessions relating to fish farming.

Signs of Recovery for Chile's Salmon Industry
CHILE - The industry appears to be coming out of its difficulties brought on by infectious salmon anaemia last year.

Chilean Salmon Farms Halved
CHILE - Chile has seen a drop in the number of salmon farming centres fall by 55 per cent over the last year.

Double-Digit Fall in Chile's Salmon Harvest
CHILE - Statistics for the first half-year of 2009 reveal that the total harvest of salmon and trout was 17 per cent lower than the same period of last year. On...

US $18 Million to Build a Recirculation Hatchery
CHILE - The salmon company controlled by the Sarquis family, Salmones Itata, would invest US$ 18 million to install and implement a recirculation hatchery in Region...

Chile's Salmon Exports Lower in First Half-Year
CHILE - Exports of salmon were 4.8 per cent lower in the first six months of 2009 than a year earlier.

Salmon Supply Squeeze to Persist
CHILE - Marine Harvest ASA, the world’s largest salmon farmer, expects supply to fall short of demand as Chile’s output will take as many as six years to...

Wal-mart Turns its Back on Chile's Virus Hit Salmon
CHILE - It has been reported that Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world’s largest retailer, has stopped buying salmon from Chilean aquaculture operations after prevalence...

AquaChile Begin Refinancing of US$380 million Debt
CHILE - Leading salmon firm AquaChile has reached an agreement with its main creditor banks, BBVA, BCI and Bank of Chile, to refinance a debt of around USD 380...

Scope of Aquaculture Laws Cause Concern Amongst Senators
CHILE - Three Chilean senators expressed their concerns regarding the scope of the new General Fisheries and Aquaculture Law (LGPA), which will be debated by...

Sustainable Salmon at the Expense of Production
CHILE - Chile's farmed salmon industry must improve its sanitary conditions if it is prepared to be a long-term industry, stated Adolfo Alvial, ex technical manager...

Stakeholders and Salmon Workers Meet in Chiloe
CHILOE, CHILE - Salmon Table Executive Secretary Felipe Sandoval met with farmed salmon sector workers and union leaders on Saturday in Chiloe to analyse production...

Marine Harvest Forecast Five Year ISA Storm
CHILE - It may take the salmon industry four to five years to recover its pre-viral infectious salmon anaemia (ISA) production levels, Marine Harvest Chile General...

Union Looks to Govt Over Chilean Salmon Crisis
CHILE - Labor leaders met Tuesday with President Michelle Bachelet to express their growing concerns over the wave of layoffs that continues to affect Chile’s...

Another 500 Jobs Lost to Chile's ISA Crisis
CHILE - An expected surge in salmon industry layoffs appears to be taking shape now that southern Chile’s salmon companies – after prematurely harvesting their stocks...

High Prices for Chilean Salmon, but Production Drops
CHILE - With Chile’s farmed salmon production expected to drop between 40 and 50 percent this year, producers here can only hope that the price of the fish – as...

Biomar Nets US$ 20 Million to Keep Afloat
CHILE - Biomar Chile receives an operating capital boost to help the company get through the current sanitary and economic crisis in the nation’s salmon industr...