Chilean salmon producer Blumar has recaptured 8,476 salmon following an escape from a production site in the Los Lagos region over the weekend, Chile's National Fisheries and Aquaculture Service (Sernapesca) said.

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Stormy weather resulted in cages being cut loose from their moorings and sinking in the early hours of Saturday.

Before the incident the grow-out site housed 875,144 fish with an average weight of 3.8