Farming the fish in netted, offshore pens then started in the 1970s, before growing substantially ever since. There were 1,343 active salmon farms across southern Chile at the end of last year.

Farming the fish in netted, offshore pens then started in the 1970s, before growing substantially ever since. There were 1,343 active salmon farms across southern Chile at the end of last year.

Chile will launch its first deepwater salmon farming project with a Norwegian loan to try and reverse the low yields on salmon amid constant global demand.

Food Safety News writer Ross Anderson recently toured Chilean fish farms and processing plants as a guest of Salmon of the Americas, a Chilean trade organization. This is the first of two reports ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — With a deadly virus threatening its fish farms, Chile has introduced measures to improve the sanitary conditions of its salmon industry and reduce the levels of ...

The salmon industry is concentrated in four countries, Canada, Norway, Scotland, and Chile, which together produce 96 percent of the world’s farmed salmon. But there are also farms in Australia, the ...

Greenpeace is warning of an environmental disaster in Chile. It says the mass production of salmon and overuse of antibiotics in fish farms is to blame.

Some time later this year, federal regulators will vote on allowing commercial fish farming in the Gulf of Mexico. Before they decide, they should consider the cautionary tale of Chile's ...

Nor does it make clear the disastrous consequences of intensive fish farming along Chile’s once pristine coastline where, according to eco-activists, many farms are plagued by disease and pollution.

The deadly toxic algae bloom has already caused the death of 23 million salmon, or 15 percent of Chile's salmon production, leading to economic losses ...