"Chile’s environmental watchdog fines “serial offender” Nova Austral once again", 13 september 2021

...Chile’s environment regulation agency has fined salmon farmer Nova Austral CLP 1.23 billion (USD 1.56 million, EUR 1.32 million) for inadequate mortality and solid-waste management at its Aracena 19 grow-out center, located inside the Alberto de Agostini National Park in Punta Arenas, Chile...

Chile’s Superintendency of the Environment (SMA) levied the fine against the Punta Arenas, Chile-based company for five infractions, the most serious of which had to do with Nova Austral’s failure to send a digitized copy of the center’s daily mortality control log corresponding to its 2016-2018 production cycle...Other breaches include insufficient solid waste management, failure to comply with preventive measures outlined in the farm’s contingency planning document, structural damage at its silage platform, and the concealment of information, which prevented SMA from exercising its supervisory power, the agency said...

Nova Austral said the SMA allegations were “completely misaligned” with the actions and business ethics of Nova Austral and its shareholders, adding that the board of directors had commissioned an internal and independent investigation to detect and correct the errors that led to the complete renewal of management – evidence, it said, of how Nova Austral is a company that “operates with the highest standards of environmental care, sustainability, and transparency in the industry”...