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More than 30 million fish lost in volcano eruption
Costco cuts Chilean supplies
CHILE’S National Fisheries and Aquaculture Service confirmed that 30.86 million fish were lost in the Calbuco volcano eruption in April, FIS reported last month. There were 21 licensed fish
farms within a 20km exclusion radius from the volcano, in the Los Lagos region, according to the Report on Aquaculture for Contingency issued by the organ- isation. Out of that total, 10 fish farms
were active before the eruption, and were operated by nine com-
panies that were farming brood- stock, eggs, fry and smolts. Between April 20-26, three
of the farms, operated by the companies Marine Harvest Chile, Aquacultivos and AquaGen Chile, recorded total losses. The report noted that, in total,
there were eight companies were affected by the volcanic eruption: AquaChile, Invermar, Cermaq, Salmones Caleta Bay, Trusal, Marine Harvest, Camanchaca and Salmones Pacific Star (operated by AquaGen Chile).
Cooke buys two more Scottish salmon farms
CANADA’S Cooke Aquaculture has increased its foothold in Scotland by buying a Shetland-based salmon producer.
Cooke, based in New Brunswick, acquired Thompson Bros Salmon, located on the island of Yell, in a share deal for an undisclosed sum. The move will add two new farms to Cooke Aquaculture Scotland’s current operations.
The new sites are located next to Cooke’s existing facilities at Unst and
Yell - one of the company’s best performing areas. ‘We are very pleased to have been able to secure this operation,’ said Colin Blair, managing director of Cooke Aquaculture Scotland. ‘The Unst/Yell area on Shetland is a very attractive area to operate, with good staff and optimal fish health.’ Cooke CEO Glenn Cooke said: ‘After this transaction, Cooke will own all of the salmon farms in the area. That will allow us to coordinate manage- ment for the entire area and enhance our ability to meet a growing demand for our products. We expect the combined business will improve our performance, bringing our total harvest for Cooke Aquaculture Scotland to approximately 22,500 tonnes in 2016.’
Over the past 30 years Cooke and his family have built a company, with nearly a billion dollars in annual sales and 2,800 employees. Last year Cooke bought the salmon farmer Meridian, which has bases in Shetland, Orkney and the Scottish mainland. Cooke already runs operations in New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, Maine, Chile and Spain.
US retailer Costco is to buy less salmon from Chile because of con- cerns over anti bioti c use. The supermarket chain, America’s third biggest, typically bought 90 per cent of the 600,000lb of salmon fi llets it sells each week from Chile, accounti ng for nearly nine per cent of Chilean exports to the United States. Costco now will buy 60 per cent of its salm- on from Norway, and 40 per cent from Chile, the Fish Site reported. Norway, the world’s
largest farmed salmon producer, uses far less anti bioti cs. Latest fi gures from the Food and Agriculture Organ- isati on show Norway produced 1.3 million tonnes of salmon and used just over 2,000 lb
of anti biot- ics in 2013. According
to Reuters, Chile used
1.2 million lb of anti bioti cs last year on producti on of nearly 900,000 tonnes of salmon, a 25 per cent increase from 2013. Costco is following the lead of Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s, which have phased out Chile- an fi sh in favour of anti bioti c-free fi sh. By law all fresh or
frozen salmon and other seafood on US grocery shelves must be labelled according to the country of origin and whether it is farmed or wild.
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Aft er this transacti on, Cooke will own all the salmon farms in the area
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