Cooke Aquaculture Chile Challenges Court-Ordered Production Suspension
Cooke Aquaculture Chile, the Chilean salmon farming arm of Canadian seafood company Cooke, was ordered to suspend operations at nine of its farming sites for one production cycle, per various local media reports.
The company rejected the fine and said that the roughly $37,000 penalty was “disproportionate” as it stemmed from an alleged delay of providing statistical information by one or two days, according to the publication Salmonexpert.
Cooke clarified that the authority's requirement that the data be submitted weekly was fulfilled, as established by current regulations...
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