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Lawyer takes the helm at Chilean aquaculture service

Lawyer takes the helm at Chilean aquaculture service

Chile’s state fisheries and aquaculture service, Sernapesca, has a new boss. Jessica Fuentes is the temporary replacement for national director Alicia Gallardo, who has been appointed the country’s undersecretary of fisheries and aquaculture.

Chile budgets for enhanced salmon inspection regime

Chile budgets for enhanced salmon inspection regime

Chile’s government aquaculture agency, Sernapesca, has been given an increased budget of almost 33.2 billion pesos (£32.8 million) for 2021, enabling it to enhance salmon farm inspections.

Multiexport Foods is first to win ‘antibiotic-free’ approval

Multiexport Foods is first to win ‘antibiotic-free’ approval

A salmon farm run by Multiexport Foods has become the first in Chile to be certified free of antibiotic (also known as antimicrobials) by state aquaculture agency Sernapesca.

Chile harvested nearly 1m tonnes of salmonids in 2019

Chile harvested nearly 1m tonnes of salmonids in 2019

Chilean salmon and trout production reached a record high of almost 1 million tonnes during 2019, according to state aquaculture agency Sernapesca.

Chile: 4.7 million salmon escaped in last 10 years

Chile: 4.7 million salmon escaped in last 10 years

Around 4.7 million fish have escaped from Chilean salmon farms in 73 incidents between 2010 and 2020, according to a report from state aquaculture agency, Sernapesca.

The risks of re-floating sunken Blumar farm

The risks of re-floating sunken Blumar farm

Plans to re-float a sunken salmon farm lying nearly 1,000 feet below the surface of the sea are being considered by Chilean authorities, which have warned of potential risks in such an operation.

Blumar fish escape total topped 100,000, says Sernapesca

Blumar fish escape total topped 100,000, says Sernapesca

Almost 104,000 Atlantic salmon escaped from two cages at a Chilean farm that was wrecked in stormy weather, government aquaculture agency Sernapesca has estimated.

Chilean salmon farmer fined £150k for hiding fish deaths

Chilean salmon farmer fined £150k for hiding fish deaths

Chilean salmon farmer Nova Austral has been fined 150 million pesos (£150,000) after concealing the extent of mortality among its fish.

Mass escape in Chile as storm wrecks farm

Mass escape in Chile as storm wrecks farm

Chilean salmon farmer Blumar lost nearly 900,000 fish during a storm over the weekend, it has been confirmed.

ISA virus detected at Chilean smolt facility

ISA virus detected at Chilean smolt facility

Chile’s aquaculture authority Sernapesca is investigating positive results for infectious salmon anaemia virus (ISAv) at a smolt facility in the Aysén region.

AquaChile probes death of 8,000 fish

AquaChile probes death of 8,000 fish

Chile’s largest salmon farmer, AquaChile, is investigating what casued the cause of the deaths of 8,000 fish with an average weight of 5kg at a farm in the Aysén region.

Chilean farmers cut antibiotic use in 2019

Chilean farmers cut antibiotic use in 2019

Use of antibiotics by Chile’s salmon farming industry fell 6% to 303.2 tonnes last year, according to government aquaculture organisation Sernapesca.

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.

Mowi calls for re-count of recaptured salmon after Chile escape

Mowi calls for re-count of recaptured salmon after Chile escape

Mowi has asked Chile’s environment agency, the SMA, to recalculate the number of salmon recovered following a huge escape at one of its farms in July last year.