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If you’re a seafood lover, you may have noticed Atlantic salmon is suddenly in short supply. That means higher dinner tabs계산 in this country, but also an economic disaster in Chili. Mark Strassman now on a menace위협 that’s having a ripple effect around the world. In Chile's northern Patagonia, in channels sheltered by the Andes Mountains, the salmon are dying. At fish farms, divers check for signs of a waterborne virus called ISA. Infectious Salmon Anemia. Harmless to humans, deadly to Atlantic salmon. ISA has killed millions of salmon here.
In some areas there were too many farms, producing too many fish in an area that was too small. Once the virus hit, it spread almost everywhere. In Chile, second only to Norway as the world's leading salmon producer, production has plummeted by a third. From 227,000 tons last year to 150,000 tons projected this year.
“So this fish is actually three days out of the water.” America's fish importers have felt it. Outside Atlanta, Joel Knox’s company once imported 75,000 pounds of Chilean salmon a week. That's dropped by two-thirds. A disaster that means higher prices to American consumers. Just since last December, the retail price of salmon has jumped 52% from $2.88 a pound to $4.38 a pound.
To save their industry, Chilean farmers are tracking the virus. And farms will take turns shutting down to give the environment a rest. But until this industry recovers, you'll pay more for Atlantic salmon. An industry now trying to swim out of troubled waters. Mark Strassman, CBS News, Puerto Montt, Chilli.
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