European and American salmon farms are regarded as relatively predictable from a production angle, but the Chilean industry has so far proved more difficult to pin down.

That could change with Marine Harvest -- which controls more than 30 percent of Chile’s salmon production -- in a position where it can influence the rate of volume growth in the country.

Lower rate of growth

Growth in the Chilean market is likely to land between 8 percent and 12 percent this year, Romuld said in a presentation last week to Swedish bank Svenska Enskilda Banken (SEB).

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