Chile’s new fishery law governs the rights of access to, and use of, resources by small-scale fishing communities. 

Chile is located in the Southeast Pacific Ocean. It is one of the five most productive and bio-diverse marine areas on the planet. Fishing and aquaculture constitute the second largest sector of the Chilean export economy, with an annual production of 3.4 million tonnes, valued at US $8.5 billion.

This Latin American country is the third largest global exporter of fish, crustaceans, molluscs and marine invertebrates, after Norway and China. It is also the world’s second largest producer of fishmeal, the fifth largest exporter of seaweed for human consumption, the leading exporter of mithilids (bivalve molluscs), the second largest producer of industrially farmed Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) and the leading producer of Coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch). Both species of carnivorous fish were introduced into Chilean waters from the Northern hemisphere.