SANTIAGO – On this year’s Oceans Day, the Chilean government created the Marine and Coastal Protected Area of multiple uses of Rapa Nui, which together with the Motu Motiro Hiva marine park makes 72 million […]
SANTIAGO – This week, Chile’s top salmon company Empresas AquaChile inked a $255 million deal to acquire 100% of Salmones Magallanes and Pesquera Eden. The acquisition, which requires regulatory approvals, would give AquaChile a salmon […]
SANTIAGO – Mitsubishi-owned salmon farmer Cermaq reduced its use of antibiotics in Chile by 70 percent in the first quarter of the year. The Oslo, Norway-headquartered, fully-owned subsidiary of Mitsubishi Corporation publishes quarterly sustainability results […]
BRASILIA – Brazil has announced a temporary ban on fish exports to the European Union. It said this is a preventative measure following an EU food safety regulations audit that revealed discrepancies. According to Brazil’s […]
SANTIAGO – Marine conservation organization Oceana has called out to national authorities to urgently implement a national traceability plan for fishery products, after television program Misión Encubierta (Undercover Mission) aired an investigative report titled “Something […]
TOKYO – A female bottlenose dolphin has died at a Japanese aquarium only weeks after breaking a national record of more than four decades in captivity. Nana, who was thought to be around 47 years […]
SANTIAGO – The environmental organization, Greenpeace, has boosted a campaign to create the largest marine protected area in the world, 1.8 million square kilometers, in Antarctica. In a press release issued yesterday, Greenpeace said that […]
TOKYO – Japan has killed 177 whales in Pacific Ocean “for scientific research” in a move which allows it to circumnavigate a moratorium on hunting the mammals. Three ships, which left port in June, returned […]
SANTIAGO – Chilean President Michelle Bachelet has officially created a 740,000-square kilometer marine reserve around remote Easter Island, a move that will protect dozens of species found nowhere else. The move follows five years of […]
RIO DE JANEIRO – Hundreds of locals in Brazil recently came together to help rescue a baby humpback whale that was stranded in a beach near Rio de Janeiro. The 32-foot-long creature was found washed […]
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