Christian Molinari

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

Punta Arenas, Chile-based salmon farmer Nova Austral may be forced to close operations throughout the country if sanctions levied by the Superintendency of the Environment (SMA) are allowed to go forward, according to documents filed by the company’s lawyer, Julio Recordón, with the country’s Third Environmental Court.

In July 2022, SMA accused the farmer of overproduction between 2015 to 2017 at three grow-out

Jack mackerel (Trachurus murphyi) – the main industrial fishery in the south-central zone of Chile – was dangerously overexploited at the beginning of the 2000s. Its subsequent management has been considered a success, and the species' recovery is now resulting in European seafood companies turning to it as an alternative to mackerel caught in the North Atlantic, a fishery that has become embroiled in management

Peru’s Ministry of Production (PRODUCE) has called an end to the first anchovy fishing season of 2022 in the country's north-central region, with total catchment reaching 2.34 million metric tons (MT) – or 84.06 percent of the total allowable catch (TAC).

The ports of Chimbote, Callao, Coishco, Malabrigo, and Chancay were the top five ports where anchovy were landed, the head of PRODUCE, Jorge Prado Palomino, said in a release.