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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Argentina is monitoring a fleet of more than 300 Chinese jiggers, longliners, and trawlers as it sales from Pacific waters in Chile through the Straits of Magellan towards the Atlantic.
Argentina's navy is escorting each vessel and following their movements to guarantee that the fleet does not fish within the country’s 200-mile exclusive economic zone (EEZ).
Argentina estimates annual losses of ARS 2.6 billion (USD 25.5
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Gabriel Boric, the 35-year-old leftist candidate for the presidency of Chile, was elected to lead the country for the next four years on Sunday, 19 December.
Boric, who has questioned the environmental sustainability of the country’s USD 4 billion (EUR 3.5 billion) salmon-farming industry, won 56 percent of the vote, defeating right-wing candidate José Antonio Kast by more than 10 points, according to the Associated Press.
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A fleet of three vessels that has tried to evade scrutiny of its illegal activities has been blacklisted by the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT), and the fleet’s insurance provider is considering dropping their coverage following an investigation by the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF).
The fleet, which has operated in the Atlantic for years, first drew EJF’s attention when
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The Chilean Salmon Council – formed by AquaChile, Australis, Salmones Aysén, Cermaq, and Mowi – has released its first-ever sustainable impact report.
The report reviews seven categories of the member companies’ social, economic, and environmental impacts in 2020. The release of the report just 18 months after the Salmon Council was formed “demonstrates the transparency of the trade association and its member
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AquaChile has divested from its tilapia operations in Costa Rica to fully concentrate on salmon production, selling its subsidiary Grupo ACI to the Costa Rica-based seafood company Martec for an undisclosed amount …
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A court of law in southern Chile’s Puerto Aysén has levied a fine of CLP 344 million (USD 407,600, EUR 360,300) against a subsidiary of AquaChile – the country’s largest salmon farmer and second-largest worldwide – for reported infractions associated with the mismanagement of mortality in its salmon-production process …
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Guayaquil, Ecuador-based Bioconversión has opened a USD 2.5 million (EUR 2.2 million) plan producing insect meal – the first such insect meal production plant of its kind in Latin America.
Founded in 2019, the biowaste-to-protein processing firm will use black solder fly (hermetia illucens) larvae to produce 1,200 metric tons (MT) of animal feed and 5,000 MT of fertilizer a year.
The plant will annually use 14,500 MT of organic
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Punta Arenas, Chile-based salmon farmer Nova Austral announced it decided in November to close its Skyring 3 site, which will mean a fourth-quarter financial impact of USD 4.1 million (EUR 3.6 million) and approximately 4,000 metric tons (MT) less in harvested volumes in 2023.
Nova Austral attributed the decision to the site having “experienced extreme weather conditions that affected the ability to operate normally, and [which] at the
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Los Ángeles, Bio Bio, Chile-based Salmones Austral continued to see business recover in the third quarter of 2021 following what it called a “complex 2020" …
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Santiago, Chile-based fishing and salmon-farming firm Blumar, which recently announced positive third-quarter 2021 results, has sold its 45 percent shareholding in Frigorífico Pacífico ...
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