If the nemesis of the farmed Atlantic salmon is the sea louse, then Don Staniford, who runs the small Global Alliance Against Industrial Aquaculture, is the industry’s persecutor-in-chief. A sea change is underway in Chile, as the government and industry are working together to reduce the amount of antibiotics used in salmon farming in the South American country. Now an 80-page report by campaign groups, Changing Markets Foundation and Compassion in World Farming, warns that […]

Wild salmon is naturally rose-tinted, a delicious side effect of the shrimp and krill in its diet.

Here, we describe an assessment of climate‐change vulnerability for the salmon farming sector in southern Chile using a model that combines semi‐quantitative measures of Exposure (risks), Sensitivity (economic and social dependence) and Adaptation Capacity (measures that prevent and mitigate impacts). In Chile, salmon farming in sea cages began more than 30 years ago on the island of Chiloé, about 1,100 south of Santiago, in the Los Lagos Region, and from there it grew and spread throughout Patagonia, to the Aysen and Magallanes Regions.

Tasty, versatile, and rich in essential omega-3 fatty acids: salmon is one of the most popular edible fish of all. Since many salmon farms are located on migration routes, wild juvenile salmon, who would not normally encounter high levels of sea lice, also become infested. ... A German engineering company is planning to farm salmon across a number of sailing vessels, ... Chile salmon M&A. “Are Chile's industrial salmon farms changing the seas?”, 18 th November 2019 …Chile exports roughly $5bn worth of salmon every year, according to Salmon Chile, an industry group. Salmon farming. A social conflict over a salmon production crisis that resulted from an outbreak of infectious salmon anemia (ISA) virus, on southern Chile’s Chiloé … From the highlands of Scotland to the Pacific waters of Chile, salmon faming is big business. Salmon farming is starting to transform the ecology and environment of southern Chile too, with tens of millions of salmon living in vast ocean corrals, their excess food and feces settling to the ocean floor beneath the pens, and dozens of salmon processing plants dumping untreated salmon entrails directly into … Latest reports German project plans salmon farming on world’s largest sailboats. Chile salmon rule changes will stabilize global markets, ... limits for salmon farms ... World’s top 20 salmon farmers: Mitsubishi moves into second place behind Marine Harvest. Half owned by private equity giant …

Chile cleans up its salmon farming industry. Changing Seas Smoked Salmon is responsibly raised by family farmers located off the coast of central Norway. Some indigenous Chileans believe the farms are killing off marine life and also threatening their communities' future. This is fed to salmon caged in hundreds of farms along the west coast. A social conflict over a salmon production crisis that resulted from an outbreak of infectious salmon anemia (ISA) virus, on southern Chile’s Chiloé Island in 2016.