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Chile accuses Marine Harvest of damaging environment after 600,000 salmon injected with antibiotics escape

Chile’s environment ministry on Monday (Aug 6) accused the local unit of Norway’s Marine Harvest of damaging the environment after hundreds of thousands of salmon escaped from one of the company’s fisheries last month. The ministry said in a statement that it had asked the State Defense Council, which represents the government in legal matters, to investigate the incident and initiate legal action against Marine Harvest with the aim of repairing the environmental damage. Some of the 600,000 fish that swam into the wild last month after a storm damaged enclosures near the southern city of Calbuco had been injected with a course of antibiotics that was incomplete at the time of their escape, making them unfit for human consumption. >click to read<08:49

Chile fishermen race to recapture escaped salmon that could pose risk

Chilean fishermen were working yesterday to recover hundreds of thousands of salmon that escaped from a fish farm as environmentalists warned of possible risks if they are eaten by humans, the government said. A storm on July 6 damaged nine enclosures at Marine Harvest’s Punta Redonda Center near the southern city of Calbuco, freeing at least 600,000 salmon into the wild, the company said.,,, Some of the salmon had been injected with a course of antibiotics that was incomplete at the time of their escape, making them unfit for human consumption and prompting concern by environmental groups that the fish will make it into the food chain too early. >click to read<11:15

Fish trial alleges lobster imports ‘unfit for human consumption’

A trial began Monday for a local man accused of unlawfully bringing cases of fish and other seafoods into Canada via the Windsor-Detroit Tunnel, including an allegation he imported frozen lobster “unfit for human consumption.” Gerald Goldhar and two Windsor companies with which he is associated — Jer-Mar Foods Ltd. and Coldwater Fisheries Ltd. — were charged with 18 counts of illegal importation, falsifying required documents used to monitor the types of foods entering Canada and providing false and misleading statements to government officials. Read the rest here 18:41