Editorial - Green Shoots of Recovery for the Salmon Business in Chile?
There may be the first signs that Chile's salmon industry is emerging from the difficulties brought on by infectious salmon anaemia (ISA).
One year after the peak of ISA virus cases, the industry is trying hard to make ends meet and leave behind low production. Some companies went bankrupt, there were job losses and tense negotiations with creditors and suppliers, and new fish health regulations have been postponed.
Although a full recovery of the industry is not expected before 2013, the situation is now better than at the turn of the year.
Last week came news that Chile had started to inoculate farm-raised salmon against ISA, whose causal virus killed millions of fish. In the first wave, some 300,000 farm-raised hatchlings have been vaccinated and millions more will be similarly treated inoculated in the coming months.
"We hope to vaccinate between 10 and 12 million fish over the next six months, said Alejandro Pino, a manager at the pharmaceutical company that manufactures the vaccine.
The shortage of salmon from Chile has had a positive effect on businesses in the UK and Ireland, which have significantly increased salmon exports to the US, which was previously a leading destination for Chilean product.
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