The company, which is already working to fix it, has informed the authorities and offered to pay for measures to ensure that escaped salmon entering the rivers do not mix with wild salmon.
Better monitoring is urgently needed to counteract the "new normal" of extreme ocean tempreatures, according to research published this week in the journal Nature.
"El Niño will intensify in the spring months, projecting into early summer in the southern hemisphere," said National Director of Sernapesca, Soledad Tapia.
On Monday, 17th, and Tuesday, 18th of July, the fisheries ministers of the Spanish presidency of the Council of the EU met in Vigo, Galicia, Spain, to define the common points that the different member states consider necessary to advance in EU policies.