Introduction

Abstract

The Chilean salmon industry accounts for around one third of salmon production in the world, and is, along with Norway, one of the two largest producers of salmon (SalmonChile 2008). For a country which is still very much dependent upon copper exports, exports of salmon currently provide a significant proportion of Chilean export revenue (5 %). The fish is an exotic species to Chile, and the miraculous speed in which the country became a top exporter was thus achieved through intensive learning efforts in collaboration with various stakeholders, beginning as early as the 1960s.