Chile Abuses Antibiotic Use on Salmon Farms
US - Chile used almost 350 times more antibiotics in its farmed salmon in 2008 than Norway, its chief competitor and the largest salmon producer in the world, according...

New Sanitary Rules for Chilean Fish Farms
CHILE - New regulations designed to improve the sanitary conditions for Chilean farmed salmon came into force last week.

Chile Approves ISA Vaccine
CHILE - The Ministry of Agriculture, through the Secretariat of Agriculture and Livestock (SAG), last week approved an infectious salmon anaemia (ISA) vaccine...

Chilean Salmon Undergo Another FDA Inspection
CHILE - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is carrying out inspections this of Chilean farmed salmon facilities.

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...

New Chilean Oral Vaccine Controls SRS
CHILE - Centrovet Laboratories has obtained provisional registration for a freeze-dried, oral-powder vaccine to aid in the prevention of Salmon Rickettsial Syndrome...

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...

Chile Salmon Industry Thrives Against Odds
CHILE - By all accounts 2008 was a very difficult year for Chile’s farmed salmon industry. Plagued by disease and pummeled by the press, the industry entered a “crisis”...

Chile Fights Back for Lucrative Salmon Industry
CHILE - When a devastating virus swept through Chile’s farmed salmon stocks last year, some of the industry’s biggest players laid off thousands of workers, packed...

Salmon Neighbourhoods Battle ISA in Chile
CHILE - In a joint effort, SalmonChile and the national fisheries service Sernapesca recently defined the organizational structure of 58 "salmon neighbourhoods",...

Chilean Salmon Escapes: Oceana Size Up the Problem
CHILE - Expressing its concern, Oceana recently requested information from the Chilean Government regarding the size and health implications of salmon escapes...

New Brunswick Helps Chile Battle Fish Farm Virus
CHILE - Chile's salmon farming industry is taking lessons from New Brunswick on how to handle a rampant spread of disease that threatens its exports.