Chile's Congress Postpones Aquaculture Law
CHILE - A new General Fisheries and Aquaculture Law (LGPA), originally foreseen for this year, has been postponed to 2010, after the presidential election.

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...

Brescia Group Shows Interest in Chile's Salmon Industry
CHILE - Brescia, one of the biggest Peruvian holdings, is looking for new investments in Chile.

Workshops on Salmon Aquaculture
CHILE - The Research Centre for Nutrition and Sustainability CIEN Austral will be hosting an International Seminar: "Trends and Challenges in Aquaculture and Nutrition"...

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.

Multiexport Plans to Expand Production
CHILE - Salmon producer, Multiexport, has presented the Environmental Impact Declaration (DIA) for a US$ 1.5 million project to enlarge its concessions nearby the...

AquaGen Sees Growth in Chile
CHILE - Norwegian fish breeding company AquaGen is to invest $12 million in a salmon eggs production plant in Ayacara in the 10th Region in Chile.

Aysen Aquaculture Industry Observatory Launched
CHILE- The Patagonia Ecosystems Research Centre (CIEP) in conjunction with the Programme for Improving Competitiveness (PMC) of the Pure Salmon Cluster Aysen has...

Study to Clarify Presence of PD
CHILE - The Chilean National Fisheries Service (Sernapesca) has launched a study at 14 Chilean lakes to investigate Pancreas Disease (PD) in the country.

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...

BIOTEC-E 2009 to Focus on Aquaculture Biotechnology
CHILE: The First Congress of Aquaculture Biotechnology will start in Puerto Varas on 1 October.

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.

Chile Vaccinates Salmon Against Deadly Virus
CHILE - On 15 September, fisheries in Chile began inoculating farm-raised salmon against infectious salmon anemia (ISA), a virus that has killed millions of fish...

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...

New Measures Monitor Salmon Eggs in Chile
CHILE - Strict control measures monitoring imported salmon eggs to has been announced by the the Directorate of Fisheries (Sernapesca) of Chile.

'Salmon Plan' Falls Short for Chile's Workers
CHILE - Government efforts to help Chile’s growing list of unemployed salmon workers have done little to truly ease the worsening labour crisis, insist several of...

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...

Chile Establishes Salmon Research Centres
CHILE - The Chilean government plans on establishing three Norwegian research institutes in the country, in an effort to boost the national salmon farming industry....