View through a tree window, above the Punta Larga holiday cabins, of fish farm salmon cages, Lake Llanquihue, Frutillar, Chile
Chile's freshwater lakes produce salmon smolt (large juvenile fish), which are later transported to marine sites to mature. 91 million smolt were produced in 1998, the figure rising to 293 million by 2005. The industry employs an estimated 45,000 people. Chile is the world's 2nd largest producer of farmed salmon. The bulk of the salmon consumed in the USA is farmed in Chile. Salmon production, totalling 378,000 tons, worth US$ billion in 2006, is major export after copper and timber. Environmental issues, however, have called for the industry to be to be moved out of freshwater ecosystems to closed containment circulation farms on land.
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Location: Lake Llanquihue, Punta Larga, Frutillar, Los Lagos Region, Southern Chile
Photo credit: © robert harrison / Alamy / Afripics
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