Prevention And Punishment Of Salmon Escapes
Chile - The modification of the General Law of Fisheries and Aquaculture last week aims to prevent and sanction salmon escapes, one of the most serious problems...

New Diet With Diflubenzuron
CHILE - The Chilean fish feed producer Salmofood, member of the Invertec holding, announced that they have recently received a license for use of diflubenzuron in...

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....

Improve Profits And Productivity With Meriden
CHILE - Matt Pearce, an aquatic pathobiology specialist with Meriden Animal Health will be speaking at the Aqua Sur conference in Chile at the end of March.

Marine Harvest Chile: Better Results Than Expected
CHILE - Marine Harvest Chile got better economical results in 2009 than expected, resulting in an operational EBIT of NOK 91 million (US$ 15.47 million) and representing...

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.

Copper Cages Could Reduce CO2 Emissions
CHILE - The use of copper mesh in salmon farms is not only a mechanism against bacteria and fish diseases, but also reduces the generation of carbon for every kilo...

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...

Marine Harvest Will Double Its Smolts Seeding
CHILE - Chile’s salmon industry - devastated by the Infectious Salmon Anemia disease (ISA) -is finally starting to recover, says Norwegian-owned Marine Harvest Chile...

Deputies’ Chamber Partially Rejected Legislative Bill
CHILE - The Chilean House of Representatives or Deputies’ Chamber rejected three articles from the legislative bill that will modify the General Law on Fisheries...

Legislative Bill Approved
CHILE - After discussions yesterday (19 January), the General Law on Fisheries and Aquaculture (LGPA) was finally approved. It will now go to a third legislative...

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...