Prices for farmed Pacific salmon -- coho -- are down 46 percent year-on-year in wholesale in Japan, causing Chilean farmers to worry about what will happen in the fourth quarter.
Coho is grown in two seasons a year and sales are done in the first and fourth quarters.
The coho situation is very bad, said Eduardo Goycoolea, sales and marketing director with Blumar Seafoods, a salmon farming and fishing group which produces around 50,000 metric tons of salmon and trout a year.
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