The Chilean salmon farming industry is expected to produce 700,000 metric tons this year, but Chilean fisheries undersecretary, Subsecretaría de Pesca (Subpesca), estimates that volume will be reduced more than 20 percent to 530,000 tons in 2014, reported La Tercera.
The reduction is due to new limits on fish density, the website said, but added that Subpesca also predicts profitability improvements.
Outbreaks of diseases such as sea lice and infectious salmon anemia (ISA) prompted Chile's department of fisheries and aquaculture (Sernapesca) to limit fish density, which will result in a 10 percent decrease in Atlantic salmon "plantings" compared to 2012, a 38 percent decrease in coho and 36 percent decrease in trout, La Tercera reported.
