17 de agosto de 2021

Argentina ban installation of salmon industry in National Parks

Argentina issued a resolution that prohibits the operation of fish farms in salmonids and commercial aquaculture, in all the National Parks of this South American country,...
4 de agosto de 2021

Chile: The third-world labor reality of the salmon export industry

The work system in the salmon industry that operates in Chile encourages self-exploitation and overwork, since the monthly salary is associated with the worker’s production volumes....
26 de julio de 2021

Salmon farming ban in Argentina opens the way to fully eliminate the transnational salmon industry in Chilean Patagonia

Ecoceanos Centre pointed out that the prohibition of establishing industrial salmon farming centers in the bi-national and strategic Beagle Channel, “constitutes a strategic defeat for the...
23 de junio de 2021

Salmon industry in Chile and increased bacterial resistance to antibiotics: Shorebirds are reservoirs and potential spreaders

Scientists recorded multi-resistant bacteria and antibiotic resistance genes in the migratory water bird “straight-billed curlew”, which lives in Chiloé where the salmon industry operates, and which...
7 de junio de 2021

Ecoceanos and the Cetacea Conservation Centre call for a boycott of the consumption of industrial salmon, to stop the death of marine mammals in South of Chile

The expansion of the salmon industry in southern Chile seriously threatens dolphins, whales and sea lions. CCC-chile.org has reported, in the northern Patagonia area, two blue...
22 de mayo de 2021

A Letter in “Science” magazine recommends stopping the salmon expansion in Chile and using the Constituent process to increase regulations

The undersigned academics ask international consumers to convince Chile to protect Patagonian biodiversity «from the environmental effects of salmon aquaculture.» They also recommend the strengthening of...
19 de mayo de 2021

Salmon industry goes to the Constitutional Court, inherited from the Pinochet dictatorship, to weaken the Mapuche-Lafkenche Law and not pay fines for escaping salmon

In 2018, hundreds of thousands of salmon, exotic and carnivorous species for Chilean waters, escaped from salmon farms that the multinational Mowi maintains on Guar Island,...
4 de mayo de 2021

Blood Salmon: on average one diver dies per month in the Chilean salmon industry during 2021

The death of a diver at the Gala 2 salmon farming center owned by AquaChile, the world’s second largest producer of farmed salmon, means the fourth...
30 de abril de 2021

Deregulation in the salmon industry increases episodes of contamination by harmful algae bloom, says Puerto Montt Medical College

•    In the Los Lagos region, there would no longer be healthy and clean marine areas to compare them with contaminated areas. •    «It is fundamental...