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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Uruguay’s National Union of Sea Workers and Related Workers (SUNTMA) has decided to call off a strike that began in early June and which has generated losses to industrial fishing companies estimated at around USD 50 million (EUR 42.9 million).
The standoff concluded in a tense atmosphere between unionized workers, some of whom expressed the need to get back to work. One such worker apparently threatened union leaders shortly before the
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Ecuadorian shrimp producers, who previously enjoyed no tariffs when shipping to the U.S., are now set to pay USD 20 million (EUR 17.1 million) per month due to the 15 percent tariff recently introduced by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump, according to Ecuador’s National Chamber of Aquaculture (CNA).
As part of Delivered Duty Paid (DDP) sales contract frameworks, under which many Ecuadorian shrimp deals with the U.S. are
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Thanks to better operational performance and higher international prices, Puerto Natales, Chile-headquartered salmon-farming firm AquaChile saw its net profits surge nearly 300 percent year over year in the first half of 2025.
During the six-month period, AquaChile brought in net profits of USD 118 million (EUR 102 million) in the first half of 2025, marking a 299 percent increase from the USD 29.6 million (EUR 25.5 million) posted in the first
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Salmon-farming association SalmonChile has developed a nationwide campaign that aims to showcase the salmon industry’s contributions to the South American country’s economy.
According to a report published last year by polling agency Cadem, Chileans are mostly unaware that the salmon industry provides jobs to more than 80,000 people, that salmon is the country’s second-largest export product after mining, or that salmon farming
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Despite claims to the contrary, threats to wildlife at Peru’s Paracas National Reserve are not coming from industrial fishing fleets, according to a recent Humboldt Institute for Marine and Aquaculture Research (IHMA) study.
The study, titled “Environmental Diagnosis of the Paracas National Reserve: Oceanography, Biodiversity, and Fisheries,” claimed that the real threat to the reserve is uncontrolled illegal, unreported, and
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A Chilean arbitration tribunal has ordered Isidoro Quiroga, the previous owner of salmon-farming company Australis, and members of his family to pay USD 292 million (EUR 252 million) to Chinese seafood firm Joyvio, which currently owns the firm.
Joyvio purchased Australis from Quiroga in 2018 for USD 921 million (EUR 796 million). Following the sale, Joyvio alleged Quiroga and the board of directors hid, falsified, and adulterated critical
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Prominent private sector executives, former government authorities, leaders of environmental organizations, salmon industry experts, and the three leading Chilean presidential candidates recently gathered for this year’s Chilean Salmon Summit to determine how best to develop policies and strategies that ensure both economic productivity and environmental protection in the nation’s salmon-farming industry.
The summit, held on 22 July
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More than 30 million cans of imported canned fish sold in Chile are misleading the public with false labeling, according to a formal complaint filed by industrial fishers association Pescadores Industriales del Biobío.
The products in question, labeled as “jurel,” or jack mackerel, are imported from China and sold under brands like Coliseo, Barquito, Novamar, and Acuenta – the latter of which is the low-cost private
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