Chile’s salmon producers’ representative body SalmonChile said Tuesday mortalities caused by the algal bloom totaled 27 million fish, or the equivalent of 106,000 metric tons of fish at harvesting weight.
All of the dead fish have been fully removed from the sites, it added.
Of this, 95,000 metric tons were Atlantic salmon, representing a 17 percent of the initial harvesting projections.
SalmonChile also reported there will not be a halt in Chilean Atlantic salmon supply, but supply will be reduced dramatically in 2016, especially during the second half of the year, by around 12 percent.
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