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Topic: Chile
Topic: Chile
News
October 29 - 2024
EN South America
Referencing public dialogue, proposals, Chile inches closer to preparing General Aquaculture Law
Seafood Source
Chile’s Undersecretary of Fisheries and Aquaculture (Subpesca) is preparing a new aquaculture law to regulate the nation's multi-billion-dollar salmon-farming sector and other fish-farming operations in the country.
By Christian Molinari
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Investigative Journalism
August 13 - 2024
EN South America
Salmon Farms in Patagonia Face Growing Opposition
New York Times
The Chilean industry’s expansion has drawn repeated challenges from environmentalists and Indigenous people of the region, and prompted calls for a moratorium. By Lucy Meyer and Casey Ann Smith
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News
September 06 - 2023
EN South America
Chile's salmon industry backs effort to reform aquaculture laws
Seafood Source
Chile’s more than 6,000 kilometers of coastline provides an environment ideal for highly productive fishing and aquaculture activities that directly contribute to national and global food security. The two activities, however, vary radically in their operational needs and have different regulations, leading the Chilean government to plan an update to its existing national fisheries law that currently lumps the two sectors together. The government expects to converse with different stakeholders throughout September, with the ultimate goal of presenting a bill during the fourth quarter of 2023.
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Documentary Films
June 08 - 2023
ES (EN subtitles) South America
Corazón Salado: A Journey to Protect the Kawésqar’s Ancestral Waters
Patagonia
Ramón Navarro joins with the Kawésqar—a traditionally nomadic Indigenous community who had their practices stripped from them during the colonization of Chilean Patagonia—in a fight for their homeland and ancestral waters. The salmon industry is creeping deeper and deeper into the region, polluting and destroying its wild and delicate ecosystem. For the locals, the fish no longer bite here, forcing the Kawésqar to stray farther from home to feed and support their families.
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Documentary Films
January 27 - 2023
EN South America
Indigenous Kawésqar take on salmon farms in Chile’s southernmost fjords
One Earth
Sixty-seven salmon farms exist within Kawésqar National Reserve in southern Chile, an area that formed part of the Kawésqar Indigenous people’s ancestral lands, and another 66 concessions are under consideration there.
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Documentary Films
January 26 - 2023
EN South America
Indigenous Kawésqar take on salmon farms in Chile’s southernmost fjords
Mongabay
In recent years, Kawésqar communities have learned new forms of resistance to counter the proliferation of the salmon industry, which is harming the fragile ecosystem of their ancestral territory.
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News
March 10 - 2016
EN South America
Chile's Salmon Farms Lose $800m as Algal Bloom Kills Millions of Fish
The Guardian
High ocean temperatures helped cause toxic bloom that has wiped out up to 20% of Chile’s total production for the year.
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