(Senior reporter Matilde Mereghetti contributed to this story.)
The blooms of algae currently affecting many of Chile's major salmon harvesters are causing millions of dollars in damage but, so far, fears of a repeat of the 2016 disaster are unfounded, industry officials said.
Arturo Clement, the president of trade group SalmonChile, told Undercurrent News that as of mid-January, farmers in the Los Lagos and Aysen regions of central Chile have seen Atlantic salmon mortalities equal to nearly 3,400 metric tons of biomass.
Of this total, roughly 1,800t, with a value of nearly $8.25 million, occurred earlier this week at the Yactac site of Santiago-headquartered farmer Invermar.
“There were also some other farms affected but not at levels like that,” Clement said [...]
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