Marine Harvest has declared that 27.23% of the salmon that escaped from one of its farms in Chile during storms in July have been recaptured.

Marine Harvest Chile is facing a fine of up to 5.6 billion pesos (£6.2 million) and a possible ban on farming fish at its Punto Redonda farm following a cage failure and mass escape on July 5.

Alicia Gallardo, the director of Chile’s National Fisheries and Aquaculture Service, Sernapesca, has said the country’s entire salmon farming sector is now under the spotlight following the escape of 690,000 fish from a Marine Harvest farm on July 5.

The pathogenic strain of ISA has been confirmed at a site operated by Aquachile in the Aysén region.