A Chilean salmon-farming company misreported its fish mortality data to regulators. Its salmon were dying in alarming numbers that had been hidden from the public.
that environmentalists attributed in part to salmon farming wreaked havoc on the Chilean coastline.
“What happened with Nova Austral is intolerable,” said Alejandro Buschmann, a biologist and a professor at Universidad de Los Lagos, headquartered in Chile’s main salmon-producing region. “This dishonest act casts a doubt over the whole salmon industry because there’s no evidence that the same thing hasn’t happened with other companies.
The salmon industry has long been riding the healthful eating trend. Demand for the high-protein, low-carb fish grew an averagein the decade ending 2017, faster than that for poultry, pork or beef. And Chile, second only to Norway in producing the most salmon, has benefited, with exports more than doubling over the last decade, to $4.7 billion last year.
When 30 million salmon died in 2016, fisherman on the island of Chiloe rioted for weeks as dead clams washed up. The industry blamed seasonal algae blooms, but asix months later said 5,000 tons of dead salmon were dumped into the open seas, worsening the effect of the algae bloom.
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