Up to 1.7 million salmon escape from Chilean cages

The general manager of SalmonChile, Carlos Odebret, coincided with these figures, however he declined to detail the amount of loses registered by the Chilean salmon industry due to this concept, "because there is no data about the biomass escaped and it is not the same a 300 gr. smolt escaped -where you lose the feeding cost- than a harvest size fish", he added.

Finally, the WWF researcher Maritza Sepúlveda said that in accordance with the information gathered since 2004, 50% of the salmon escapes were caused by weather conditions and farming sites handlings.