Combined, Norway and Chile account for around 75 to 80 percent of the world's production of farmed Atlantic salmon.

However, Chile should no longer consider Norway solely as a competitor, SalmonChile's retiring chairman Jose Ramon Gutierrez said.

”It’s not always a good thing to just focus on competition. I think we often have more to gain from a mixture of competition and cooperation."

Gutierrez is one of the founders and an executive director on the board of Multiexport Foods, a corporation listed on Santiago Stock Exchange which owns the salmon producer Salmones Multiexport SA.

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