Christian Molinari

Chilean citizens overwhelmingly voted to reject a proposed new constitution on Sunday, 4 September, in a move that prevents further headaches for the country’s USD 5.2 billion (EUR 5.2 billion) salmon-farming sector.

According to Servel, Chile’s elections department, 4.86 million people voted to approve the proposed constitution, while 7.88 million rejected it, meaning the measure failed 61.9 percent to 38.1 percent.

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Coordinadora Arauco-Malleco (CAM) – an indigenous organization in Chile that advocates for the creation of an autonomous state for the indigenous Mapuche people in the Araucanía region, where they claim historical rights – has called for increased sabotage against industries, including the salmon-farming sector, operating in the south of the country.

CAM's statement came in response to the arrest of its leader,

Ecuador’s Vice Ministry of Aquaculture and Fisheries of the Ministry of Production, Foreign Trade, Investments, and Fisheries (MPCEIP) has signed a confidentiality agreement with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the first step of a strategic alliance with one of the Latin American nation’s main markets for shrimp exports, according to Ecuador’s National Chamber of Aquaculture (CNA).

“The purpose of this

Santiago, Chile-based salmon farmer Salmones Camanchaca posted a positive Q2 2022, reversing the losses the company posted in 2021.  

Camanchaca continued to benefit from high market prices during Q2 2022 while the company simultaneously decreased its costs, which combined to bolster its bottom line. Net profits for the quarter came in at USD 16.9 million (EUR 16.8 million), versus a loss of USD 8.4 million (EUR 8.36 million) during Q2

The social protests that spread through Ecuador in the last two weeks of June 2022 caused an estimated USD 9 million (EUR 8.96 million) in losses to the country's shrimp sector, Ecuador’s National Chamber of Aquaculture (CNA) Executive President José Antonio Camposano told SeafoodSource.

The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities launched an indefinite national strike that virtually paralyzed economic activity in

Chile’s USD 5.2 billion (EUR 5.1 billion) a year salmon industry is the second largest in the world – representing 27 percent of world production – but it risks falling by the wayside if it continues without a medium- to long-term strategy, according to sector observers.

“Salmon farming is a relatively young productive sector in Chile, which has developed in the last 40 years and has been one of the main engines of

During the first half of 2022, Chile’s National Fisheries and Aquaculture Service (Sernapesca) carried out a total of 15 campaigns to monitor aquaculture operations and found breaches in 18 percent of its audits, leading to four subpoenas, 14 summonses to the Superintendence of the Environment (SMA), and 104 citations for minor breaches.

Thus far in 2022, the Puerto Aysén Court of Letters and Guarantee has issued 10 convictions