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Chilean trucker strike has US wholesalers eyeing more Canadian salmon

Even though Samuels & Son bought nearly 5,000 extra pounds of Chilean salmon recently, what’s left in inventory will most likely be spoken for by the end of Wednesday

By Jason Huffman | Sept. 2, 2020 18:34 BST
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Additional reporting by Tom Seaman 

Carlo Roccamo, a purchasing agent at US wholesaler Samuels & Son Seafood, charged with buying Atlantic salmon, was keeping a close eye on the Chilean government’s negotiations with truckers Wednesday. If a settlement isn’t reached by the end of the day, he told Undercurrent News, he was going to have to switch to buying more Canadian-sourced salmon [...]

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