Despite a lackluster market and higher costs, Chilean salmon producer Australis Seafoods, a subsidiary of China-based Legend Holdings' Joyvio, posted a rise in earnings and sales in 2019, the result of a sharp production increase.

Australis harvested 71,976 metric tons of salmon in 2019, a 22 percent increase over the previous 12 months, lifting sales 13 percent from a year earlier to $407.3