Diario Financiero reported 2008 will be a year the Chilean salmon industry would rather forget, and Cultivos Marions Chiloe (CMChiloe) won't be an exception to the rule.

Chairman Jose Lopez reports industry figures for 2008 will be red -- “intense red”.

His company was hit hard by infectious salmon anemia (ISA) last year. Only one of 15 farm facilities in regions 10 and 12 are still operative. The plan is to start up two new farms during 2009, but Lopez says that might be difficult to achieve.

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