Oceana claims excessive antibiotic use in Chilean salmon farming
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [The Beacon] By Madeleine Simon - July 23, 2014 -
A new report found that the Chilean salmon farming industry used the highest amount of antibiotics in 2013 of any country. The report by Chile’s National Fisheries and Aquaculture Service revealed that the industry used over 993,000 pounds of antibiotics in 2013.
Chile is the second largest producer of salmon after Norway, yet Norway used significantly less antibiotics and had more success than Chile in 2013. Norway used 2,100 pounds of antibiotics for the year, compared to the hundreds of thousands that Chile used.
In 2007, Chile’s salmon farming industry nearly collapsed after an outbreak of a deadly virus killed off half of the country’s salmon stocks. Five years later, after new sanitary measures were taken by salmon companies, the industry has recovered.
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