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Chilean salmon farm disaster

Sophia Boddenberg
September 27, 2018

In southern Chile hundreds of thousands of salmon escaped a farm during a storm in July. The company responsible, Marine Harvest – the largest salmon producer in the world – had 60 days to capture 10 percent of the fish. But when their deadline to do so expired, less than six percent had been recovered, which is causing problems for local fishermen and the environment around them.

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