Chile’s Environmental Assessment Service (SEA) has agreed to the plans for the construction of the country’s first land-based salmon farm.

Pure Salmon, which aims to grow 260,000 tonnes of Atlantic salmon per year at on-land farms across the globe, has named Tazewell County, Virginia as the site for a 20,000-tonne facility to serve the eastern United States.

On-land fish farm expert AquaMaof has signed a deal to build a recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) in the Vologda region of Russia. It will have a production capacity of 2,500 tonnes of market-size Atlantic salmon a year.