The infectious salmon anemia (ISA) virus was first detected at two farms owned Marine Harvest Chile in August 2007.
At that time, no one knew Chile’s salmon farming industry, the second largest in the world behind Norway, was about to experience the worst disease outbreak in its history.
By the spring of 2009, Atlantic salmon production in Chile was falling and projections for future production were getting bleaker with every passing day.
The next several years will be tough for Chile’s salmon farming sector, as it struggles to rebuild itself and deal with the ramifications of the worst disease outbreak in its two-decade history.
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