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Strike brings more disruption to Chilean salmon plants

Strike brings more disruption to Chilean salmon plants

Some salmon processing plants in Chile were closed again earlier this week during a one-day general strike against widening levels of inequality in the country.

Salmon farmers third on Chile prompt payers’ list

Salmon farmers third on Chile prompt payers’ list

Chile’s salmon industry is one of the better sectors for settling bills from small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) quickly, according to a ranking by the country’s Products Bag, a South American marketing mechanism for agricultural products and other commodities.

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Chile: Workers warn of health threat as salmon rot in process plants

Chile: Workers warn of health threat as salmon rot in process plants

Thousands of salmon are rotting in processing plants in the Chilean city of Quellón and fish are dying of starvation in collection centres because roadblocks are preventing feed being delivered.

AquaChile salmon plant set alight by looters

AquaChile salmon plant set alight by looters

A group of people set fire to part of a salmon processing plant owned by AquaChile and tried to loot it last night after a week in which the industry has increasingly become a target for Chileans angry with growing inequality in the country.

Shutdown continues at Chile process plants as protesters evict workers

Shutdown continues at Chile process plants as protesters evict workers

Salmon processing plants in the Chilean city of Quellón continued to be shut down today because of countrywide unrest prompted by anger about growing inequality.

Chile: Unrest halts salmon processing in Quellón

Chile: Unrest halts salmon processing in Quellón

Non-violent evictions of workers by protesters and threats of damage to facilities yesterday brought Chilean salmon processing plants to a halt in Quellón, a port city and commune in southern Chiloé Island in the Los Lagos region.

Curfews and road delays hit troubled Chile’s exports

Curfews and road delays hit troubled Chile’s exports

Chilean salmon farmers have detailed the difficulties that have caused exports to plunge in the face of massive social unrest over inequality in the country.

Chileans develop aeration system to restore seabed

Chileans develop aeration system to restore seabed

An aeration system which promises to solve the problem of hypoxia of the seabed under salmon cages will be tested on a Cermaq salmon farm in Chile.

RAS research recirculated to Chilean hatchery experts

RAS research recirculated to Chilean hatchery experts

Feed producer BioMar has flown 22 members of the Chilean salmon farming industry to Europe’s biggest gathering of aquaculture scientists in Berlin to keep them up to date with the latest developments in recirculating aquaculture systems.

Chile: Fish farm sediment may be dredged and dried

Chile: Fish farm sediment may be dredged and dried

Sediment from salmon farms in Chile could be dredged up on to barges and dried in huge bags made of a geotextile material as one solution to comply with imminent legislation.

Rapid response to escape recaptures 20% of fish

Rapid response to escape recaptures 20% of fish

Fishermen working for Chilean salmon farmer Salmones Aysén have helped recover around 5,000 of the 25,000 fish that were discovered to have escaped from a pen on a farm in the Calbuco area on Monday.

Chile: offshore submersible cage begins test operations

Chile: offshore submersible cage begins test operations

A submersible salmon cage developed to take Chile’s aquaculture industry offshore has been stocked for the first time.

'Environmentally-harmless' lice drug developed in Chile

'Environmentally-harmless' lice drug developed in Chile

A Chilean biotechnology consortium has applied to patent a new antiparasitic which it says produces 100% mortality in both larval-stage and adult sea lice in laboratory tests.

Hurricane blows a hole in Chilean salmon exports

Hurricane blows a hole in Chilean salmon exports

Chilean salmon farmers have rescheduled exports to Miami in response to the approach of powerful Hurricane Dorian, which has already ripped the roofs off homes and caused severe flooding in the Bahamas.

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