Marine Harvest’s top executive is optimistic about the future of salmon production in Chile. But the changes implemented after the ISA crisis need to have made a difference before production is back on track again.

"Production in Chile has to go down again before it can go up," Marine Harvest CEO Alf-Helge Aarskog told IntraFish. "In region 11, zones 6 and 7 are packed with fish. You have to think long and hard and know what you’re doing when you are growing rapidly.