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Salmon Aquaculture, Cuisine And Cultural Disruption In Chiloe, Philip Hayward
Salmon Aquaculture, Cuisine And Cultural Disruption In Chiloe, Philip Hayward
Professor Philip Hayward
La Isla Grande de Chiloe, located off the southern coast of Chile, is the second largest island on the Pacific coast of South America.1 2002 census figures identified the population of the island and its smaller outliers (henceforth referred to collectively as Chiloe as close to 155,000,2 representing approximately 1% of Chile’s overall population. An undeveloped regional ‘backwater’ for most of the 19th and 20th centuries, Chiloe has risen to play an increasingly prominent role in the national economy since the establishment of commercial salmon aquaculture in the region in the early 1980s. This article examines the environmental, social and …