Tag: Salmon Chile

• Monday, August 24th 2020 - 08:23 UTC

  Chile slaps record fine of US$ 6 million on Norwegian salmon farming company for the escape of 700,000 fish

  

  Chile's environmental protection service said on Friday it had slapped a record US$ 6.6 million fine on a Norwegian salmon producer for the 2018 escape of 690,000 antibiotic-fed fish.

• Wednesday, November 21st 2018 - 17:43 UTC

  Another Chilean salmon producer bound for Chinese buyover

  

  A buyover deal of Chilean salmon producer and exporter Australis by Chinese company Joyvio, subsidiary of Legend Holdings and parent of Lenovo, is close to being finalized, it was announced Tuesday.

• Monday, August 13th 2018 - 06:54 UTC

  Environmental organizations warn about salmon farming risks in Tierra del Fuego

  

  A report issued by the Forum for the Conservation of the Patagonian Sea and Surrounding Areas warns of the serious impacts that salmon and trout farming would have on the Argentine coast if the initiatives being considered by the federal government and the province of Tierra del Fuego are approved.

• Wednesday, April 12th 2017 - 10:27 UTC

  Chilean salmon sold in Buenos Aires revealed high contents of antibiotic residue

  

  A study performed by the Institute of Technology of UADE Foundation found that 66% of the salmon fillets imported from Chile that are marketed in the fish farms of the City of Buenos Aires contain remains of antibiotics “that can affect the health of those who consume it ”.

• Tuesday, March 8th 2016 - 12:38 UTC

  Algae bloom in southern Chile causing massive losses in the salmon farms

  

  A group of salmon farms operating in the south of Chile have reported the mass death of millions of salmon. The deaths are attributed to an outbreak of harmful algae, set to generate millions in financial losses and see supermarket prices soar across Chile.

• Monday, April 27th 2015 - 10:32 UTC

  Chile could lose 8% of salmon production at hatcheries because of Calbuco eruption

  

  Chile's Association of Salmon producers (SalmonChile) reported destruction of hatcheries and heavy losses in production in the industry which operates numerous freshwater facilities in the area directly affected by the eruption of the Calbuco volcano.

• Wednesday, July 9th 2014 - 07:50 UTC

  Chile fisheries landings in five months total 1.6 million tons, up 24%

  

  Chile's accumulated fisheries landings during the first five months of the year totaled 1.6 million tons, up 24% from the five months of 2013, when 1.3 million tons were landed.

• Friday, March 22nd 2013 - 06:36 UTC

  Pescanova planning to sell assets in Chile to reorganize finances

  

  The main creditor banks of the Galician multinational firm Pescanova, (which is under a probe from the Spanish stock market regulator), argue that the only way the firm can reorganize its financial situation is through the total or partial sale of its subsidiary in Chile by means of a Preventive Judicial Agreement.

• Wednesday, July 4th 2012 - 22:08 UTC

  Chile relocates salmon farms along sanitary corridors to avoid spread of diseases

  

  Chilean Under-Secretariat of Fisheries (Subpesca) defined eight macro zones for the salmon industry, which will be located in regions X and XI, extreme south of the country which means companies will have to relocate the farms that are near these sanitary corridors.

• Wednesday, November 2nd 2011 - 04:27 UTC

  Canada fears the virulent strain of ISA could be spreading to wild salmon

  

  Wild-salmon advocates in Canada fear that tests showing a serious virus in one Fraser River coho and two wild sockeye salmon mean the European strain of infectious salmon anaemia (ISA) could be spreading through British Columbia's wild-salmon runs.