A native of San Francisco, Christian Molinari has lived and worked in Chile for over 20 years, after having arrived in Santiago as a volunteer and falling in love with the culture and its people. He covered business news in Latin America for over a decade, worked in communications at IBM Chile, and currently freelances in strategic communications and reporting.
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Camanchaca’s recent launch of the “Único” brand is the latest move in a growing trend of Chilean seafood companies looking to better cater to the domestic market in Chile.
Santiago, Chile-based seafood firm Camanchaca’s first offering through the Único brand – already available to local wholesalers, distributors, and supermarkets – is canned horse mackerel, and the company said it
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Chilean salmon farmer Multi X, previously known as Multiexport Foods, has created a new brand of ultra-premium, antibiotic-free certified fresh, frozen, and smoked salmon products for the U.S., Canadian, and European markets, with plans to expand to new markets in 2022.
The brand, Arka, whose name means “heaven” in the native Kawésqar dialect, will market salmon which are antibiotic-free, Aquaculture Stewardship
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Ecuador will increase the area protecting the Galapagos Marine Reserve by 60,000 square kilometers, Ecuador President Guillermo Lasso announced at the United Nations COP26 climate summit taking place in Glasgow, Scotland.
The reserve will grow nearly 50 percent in size from its current 130,000 square kilometers, Lasso said. Ecuador’s newly created reserve would expand northward to include the Cocos Ridge and would completely ban industrial
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Oslo, Norway-based GenoMar Genetics has signed a joint venture with Colombian poultry genetics distribution company Agroavícola Sanmarino, to begin distribution tilapia genetics in the form of fingerlings and juveniles …
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Santiago, Chile-based seafood firm Camanchaca has launched the “Único” brand, targeting the domestic Chilean market. …
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Chilean salmon farmer Multi X – previously known as Multiexport Foods – has announced that as of January, Fernando Pérez Saavedra will take over as its new business manager, replacing Ricardo Grunwald – who has decided to step down to take on other challenges …
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Mowi Chile’s Huenquillahue research center in Region X has been analyzing a high-quality fabric, made by Indian firm Garware Technical Fibres Ltd., to review the cloth’s ability to contain sea lice infestations in salmon farming pens …
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Los Ángeles, Bio Bio, Chile-based Salmones Austral has announced the launch of the Secret Island specialty brand targeting individual consumers on the U.S. East Coast.
The company also announced plans to expand nationwide next year – joining a growing list of salmon farmers that are specifically targeting the U.S., by far Chile’s largest export market.
“Born out of the crystal waters of Chilean Patagonia,
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Chilean salmon and trout exports brought in USD 1.17 billion (EUR 1 billion) during the third quarter of the year, a 33.5 percent boost compared to the USD 877 million (EUR 756 million) in the same quarter of 2020 and slightly surpassing pre-pandemic export levels, according to new information released by the Chilean Salmon Council.
The surge was attributed to a recovery in salmon prices, which averaged USD 8.40 (EUR 7.20) per kilogram
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A journalistic investigation carried out by CNN Chile and Chilevisión has found that current Chilean presidential candidate Sebastián Sichel financed a failed campaign for congress in 2009 with contributions from fishing companies, most of which were delivered irregularly.
The investigation uncovered a number of lists detailing contributions of up to CLP 30 million (USD 37,000, EUR 32,000) for Sichel’s candidacy
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