Ecoceanos says that Chile holds the world record for mortality in salmon farming, with 90 workers having died between 2013 and January 2026 due to what is claims are “substandard labour conditions”.

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 ...

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 ...

Chile’s Aquaculture Innovation Club has announced it will focus its efforts this year on expanding its members’ presence ...

The last four years of Chilean policymaking have been very negative for the country’s aquaculture sector, according to ...

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 ...

As stocks of wild fish in the sea were reduced from overfishing, aquaculture or fish farming expanded significantly to the point that in about 2020, the total tonnage of farm raised fish surpassed ...