Studies and NGOs have documented lost or abandoned gear from open-net aquaculture operations in coastal areas across cold and temperate latitudes, where fish farming in the sea expanded rapidly in the ...

This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center. Comau Fjord is a sliver of sea framed by thickly forested mountain slopes. Melting glaciers peek between the crags. Waterfalls tumble down ...

In its recently published 2024 Sustainability Report, Chilean salmon-farming firm Nova Austral claims it has become the only aquaculture company in Chile producing salmon without the use of ...

A law that came into force in Chile last year has upset the salmon industry for imposing new requirements for salmon farms located in protected areas. The industry says the new rules threaten jobs and ...

Chile has elected right-winger José Antonio Kast as its next president by a sizeable majority – and the incoming government could prove friendlier to the country’s substantial salmon industry.

As global demand for seafood continues to surge and capture fisheries plateau, fish farming — or aquaculture — presents a promising path to achieving food security, economic growth, and a sustainable ...

The Japanese marine products corporation Nissui is entering the Chilean salmon sector, following its purchase this week of ...

Sea lice attached to the skin of a wild salmon. Salmon farms have been plagued by parasitic sea lice (Lepeophtheirus salmonis) since they were first established in Norway in the 1960s. The small ...