Chilean salmon industry sounding alarm over governmental management plans in key aquaculture region

Governmental antagonism toward salmon farmers in Chile has reached such a point that the sector may soon be forced out of a significant aquaculture region in the country’s south, according to Arturo Clement, the president of industry association SalmonChile. Chile’s national forest service, Conaf, announced earlier this year it is looking to draw up management plans for national reserves where salmon farming occurs, with some of these plans including phase-outs of important concessions over the…