Christian Molinari

Peru’s Ministry of Production (PRODUCE) has opened the second anchovy fishing season of the year in the country's south region, setting a total allowable catch (TAC) of 486,500 metric tons (MT), government gazette El Peruano reported.

The TAC is flat from that established for the first season, which ran from January through June, with the limit also set at 486,500 MT. However, as of 26 June, 2022, only 197,000 MT had been landed, or just

San Isidro, Peru-based fishing company Austral Group, a producer of fishmeal, fish oil, canned fish, and frozen fish, has been rewarded for its longstanding focus on sustainability, according to the company's CEO, Adriana Giudice.

Austral, which operates 19 fishing vessels and four processing plants in Peru, and which is owned by the Norwegian group Austevoll Seafood, produces about 10 percent of the fishmeal and fish oil

Chile’s constitutional convention process, mandated by the citizens to define a new national charter, has included some proposals deemed by SalmonChile to be a threat to the country’s salmon-farming industry.

In a national referendum in October 2020, 78 percent of Chilean citizens voted in favor of a new constitution, to be drawn up by a body elected by popular vote. Chile’s constitutional convention has been in

Chile’s Superintendency of the Environment (Superintendencia del Medio Ambiente, or SMA) has initiated a new sanctioning procedure against salmon farmer Santiago, Chile-based Australis Mar for overproduction.

The new sanction procedure is against Australis’s 20-hectare Estero Retroceso grow-out center in Chile’s Magallanes Region, in the southern part of the country. The new procdure is the sixth case that SMA has opened

Chilean salmon farmer Australis Seafoods, owned by China’s Joyvio Group, has named industry veteran Andrés Lyon as the its new CEO – replacing Ricardo Misraji – in a move that the company said looks to drive new development and consolidate ongoing operations.

Lyon, an industrial civil engineer, has nearly 25 years of experience in the industry. Up until the announcement, he was a member of the board and vice president of

Chile’s Superintendency of the Environment (SMA) is bringing charges against salmon farmers claiming they overproduced at production centers located within the Kawésqar National Reserve in the southern region of Magallanes.

If found guilty, the farmers risk revocation of their environmental permit, closure of operations, or fines of an amount equivalent to up to CLP 3.3 billion (USD 4 million, EUR 3.73 million).

The alleged

Pontevedra, Spain-based vertically integrated seafood firm Nueva Pescanova has launched its first sustainability-linked promissory notes in the alternative fixed income market of the Bolsas Mercados Españoles (BME), the operator of all stock markets and financial systems in Spain.

The issue will be for up to EUR 75 million (USD 80.5 million), which “demonstrates its commitment to ensure the social and environmental sustainability of