AquaChile Joins Forces With Alitec

Chile’s leading salmon producer, AquaChile, is to join forces with Alitec, a subsidiary of Dutch animal nutrition provider Provimi to produce fish-food at a plant in the south of the country. The companies have signed a joint venture agreement to work together to develop saltwater fish feed at Alitec’s existing plant at Pargua. Salmon is Chile’s fourth-largest export after being introduced into the country in the 1980s. Chile hopes to overtake Norway to become the world’s leading producer of the fish.