Valentina Vera

University of Chile · Departamento de Ingeniería Industrial

Since the mid-1980s, the Chilean salmon industry has steadily increased its annual production, propelled by a rapidly growing world demand for seafood (Montero 2004). The rapid expansion in production volume came hand in hand with the development of new institutions and new forms of social interaction among industry associations, universities, rese...

Genesis of the sanitary and environmental crisis currently afecting the Chilean salmon farming industry. Salmon farming is by no mean an easy activity. To take a species – salmon – that freely grows in nature and to try commercially to raise it in cultivation tanks trying to reproduce in the enclosure the biological dynamics that obtains in rivers,...