Chilean salmon company Ventisqueros reported a steep increase in earnings in 2017 partly due to an increase in coho prices heading to Japan at the start of the year after cold-storage inventories hit historic lows in the country.

Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) came to €57.6 million ($66.9 million), up from the €5.1 million ($5.9 million) reported a year earlier, as sales grew 63 percent over the period, to a total of €125.7