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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Chile’s largest salmon-farming firm, AquaChile, strengthened its weighting in overall contributions to parent company Agrosuper’s top line as the aquaculture division outperformed the holding’s meats division during the second quarter of the year, according to results recently posted by the parent company.
AquaChile is Chile’s largest salmon producer, a conglomerate formed in a 2018 sector consolidation that brought a
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Chile’s Superintendence of the Environment (SMA) has filed charges against two fish farming companies operating in the central Chilean region of Araucanía due to alleged wastewater mismanagement and the subsequent proliferation of microorganisms in the discharge sectors of each farm’s respective bodies of water.
According to recent reports from the environmental watchdog, SMA detected breaches of the environmental permits each
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Peru’s Production Ministry (PRODUCE) is working to establish regulations for the country’s first-ever national fisheries policy, which aims to position Peru’s fishing industry as more competitive and sustainable by 2030 and address food security issues, among other goals.
PRODUCE will begin the process with a diagnosis of the fishing sector, based on which long-term strategies and action plans will target the entire seafood
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Guayaquil, Ecuador-based ProExpo has announced its official entry into the U.S., expecting to sell 15 containers per month of its recently launched FreeBay brand of premium, antibiotic-free, head-on, shell-on frozen shrimp to the competitive Western market over the next year.
FreeBay International Key Account Manager Sharon Carpio told SeafoodSource that this move was partially due to the inconsistency of the Asian markets where the company
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Chinese foodservice giant Joyvio, owner of Chilean salmon farmer Australis Seafoods, has taken its heated legal battle against the farmer’s former owner, Isidoro Quiroga, to a new level, filing claims not just in Chile but also in both the United Kingdom and the United States.
Joyvio is reportedly seeking more than GBP 10 million (USD 12.8 million, EUR 11.6 million) in civil litigation in the U.K. against Quiroga and some of his family
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A creditor of Punta Arenas, Chile-based salmon farmer Nova Austral is suing some of the company’s former managers and directors for fraud, throwing yet another financial impediment at the company while it actively seeks a judicial reorganization to stave off bankruptcy.
Fratelli Investments Limited – a company formed by siblings of the Solari family, which owns Falabella, one of South America’s largest retail holdings –
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A group of Chilean fishermen has taken court action to stop a USD 1 billion (EUR 888 million) water desalination project on Chile’s central coast after preventing access to the construction site for the past two months over fears that the plant’s operations will pollute the waters in which they work.
The Aconcagua Desalination Plant under construction near the coastal town of Quintero aims to supply fresh water to mining companies
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On 29 June, a woman walking along the coast of Sauce de Portezuelo, near Uruguay's famed beaches of Punta del Este – found a bottle containing a handwritten message in a foreign language that she didn't comprehend, but which ended in three letters that she did recognize: "SOS." Recognizing it was a request for help, she immediately notified local authorities, who referred the matter to the regional prosecutor's office.
Uruguayan press
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Guatemalan fishing council Industria Pesquera y Camaronera de Guatemala (Indupecasa) and the Center for Development and Sustainable Fisheries (CeDePesca) have collaborated to relaunch a fishery improvement project (FIP) for the Pacific mahi and yellowfin tuna fishery operating within Guatemalan waters.
The Guatemalan mahi (Coryphaena hippurus) fishery, which has been in place for 20 years and mainly features small-scale boats, is an important
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Puerto Varas, Chile-based Australis Seafoods has filed several proposed compliance programs to address concerns raised by Chile’s Superintendency of the Environment (SMA).
The SMA has accused Australis Seafoods of producing more than 85,000 metric tons (MT) of farmed Atlantic salmon beyond what its permits allowed between 2014 and 2022, filing 21 sanctioning procedures against Australis, including 52 serious infractions for
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