Christian Molinari

Eight Ecuadorian shrimp-farming firms have been reauthorized to export products to China, Ecuador’s National Chamber of Aquaculture (CNA) announced in a statement. When contacted by SeafoodSource, CNA said it was not at liberty to disclose the names of the companies involved or the reason why the firms were barred from exporting to China to begin with. Some had been on China’s no-import list since October 2025 and others from January 2026… Read More

Chile has opened a new market for salmon exports after having completed the technical and sanitary process needed to ship to Nicaragua. Last November, Chile’s National Fisheries and Aquaculture Service (Sernapesca) agreed to an audit from Nicaraguan authorities that aimed to certify Chile’s phytosanitary controls. That authorization was then given in March of this year, after which negotiations over an export health certificate took… Read More

Chile’s Supreme Court has rejected an appeal filed by the Los Lagos Communal Environmental Committee and confirmed the validity of an environmental permit issued for Salmones Antártica’s Río San Pedro salmon farm. Santiago, Chile-based Salmones Antártica first sought approval on a fish-farming project along the San Pedro River, located in the southern Los Ríos region of the country, in 2007. Shortly thereafter, the firm received an… Read More

Chilean salmon-farming firm Salmones Camanchaca posted net profits of USD 3.2 million (EUR 2.7 million) in the second quarter of 2026, marking a 50 percent drop compared to USD 6.4 million (EUR 5.4 million) posted in the same quarter of 2025. Top-line revenues in the period increased 35 percent year over year to USD 94.6 million (EUR 810 million), with higher volumes sold from inventories of both Atlantic salmon, up 36 percent; and coho, the… Read More

Chilean salmon-farming firm AquaChile reported net profits of USD 66 million (EUR 56.6 million) and a net margin of 15.6 percent in the second quarter of 2026, marking sizable increases from the USD 41 million (EUR 35.1 million) in net income and 9.4 percent in net margin recorded in Q2 2025. The firm’s parent company Empresas Agrosuper said in its latest earnings report that the positive results were due to solid operational performance, a… Read More

Chile’s salmon-farming sector wrapped up a four-year, CLP 4.22 billion (USD 4.6 million, EUR 4 million) sustainability initiative that delivered measurable gains in emissions reduction, waste recovery, water footprint measurement, and circular economy practices and led to the recent certification of 19 firms. The Clean Production Agreement, or APL as per the acronym in Spanish, was implemented between 2021 and 2025 and coordinated by… Read More

The Chilean salmon industry has long attempted to reduce its antibiotic use and mitigate the harmful effects of sea lice.  Animal health firm Sudvet said it is aiding the sector in achieving both of those goals by rolling out non-pharmacological strategies on salmon farms to help aquaculture firms reduce antibiotic and antiparasitic treatments. According to Sudvet CEO Marcela Delgado, the company has developed strategies covering the entire… Read More

Chilean salmon-farming firm Multi X is continuing to use its MultiSea land-based hatchery facility as a strategic tool to shorten marine production cycles, stabilize harvests, and reduce its salmon’s exposure to challenging environmental conditions, according to CEO Cristián Swett. MultiSea – a recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) hatchery facility developed jointly by Multi X and Sealand Aquaculture – produces both smolts and… Read More

As part of efforts to review the government’s reach and streamline its services, Ecuador President Daniel Noboa recently announced intentions to merge multiple ministries within his administration, including the Vice Ministry of Aquaculture and Fisheries, into one broader entity. Ecuador's Executive Decree 425 mandates the merger of the Ministry of Production, Foreign Trade, and Investment and the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, which… Read More

Chile Senator Fidel Espinoza has called for the urgent formation of a working group to analyze the safety conditions of divers who perform maintenance work on the nation’s salmon farms. The call came shortly after the deaths of two divers occurred in under one month, both of whom worked for contract firm Tridente Servicios Acuícolas. One of the fatal accidents took place at the beginning of June at a farm belonging to AquaChile, and the other… Read More