Table 1.
Landings (tons) of the main commercially exploited bivalve species from natural shellfish banks (artisanal fisheries) and from aquaculture along the Chilean coast during 2020. Codes for regions: CO: Coquimbo; BB: Bío Bío; LL; Los Lagos; AY: Aysén; MG: Magallanes; OR: Other 10 regions. Data from SERNAPESCA 2020 [49].
| Scientific Names | Common Names (English) | Common Chilean Names (Spanish) | Price ($US kg−1) |
Administrative Regions | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO | BB | LL | AY | MG | OR | |||||
| Mytilus chilensis | Blue mussel | Chorito | 1.0 | 7 | 400,230 | 4 | 28 | 35 | 400,304 | |
| Ameghinomya antiqua | Clam | Almeja | 0.8 | 1 | 92 | 10,993 | 57 | 12 | 133 | 11,288 |
| Aulacomya atra | Ribbed mussel | Cholga | 0.6 | 109 | 6037 | 32 | 55 | 81 | 6314 | |
| Argopecten purpuratus | Scallop | Ostion del Norte | 14,5 | 3987 | 380 | 4367 | ||||
| Tagelus dombeii | Hard razor clam | Navajuela | 0.7 | 2700 | 221 | 249 | 3170 | |||
| Choromytilus chorus | Giant mussel | Choro | 0.5 | 41 | 2172 | 99 | 281 | 2593 | ||
| Tawera gayi | Baby clam | Juliana | 0.2 | 2504 | 0 | 2504 | ||||
| Mulinia edulis | Clam | Taquilla | 0.1 | 1191 | 0 | 1191 | ||||
| Ensis macha | Sea asparagus | Huepo | 1.3 | 832 | 328 | 0 | 1160 | |||
| Mesodesma donacium | Surf clam | Macha | 5 | 780 | 71 | 4 | 855 | |||
| Chlamys vitrea | Scallop | Ostion del Sur | 0.8 | 1 | 446 | 0 | 447 | |||
| Ostrea chilensis | Chilean oyster | Ostra Chilena | 0.9 | 401 | 0 | 401 | ||||
| Gari solida | Clam | Culengue | 1.0 | 17 | 282 | 47 | 0 | 346 | ||
| Semele solida | Clam | Tumbao | 0.6 | 159 | 0 | 159 | ||||
| Magallana gigas | Pacific oyster | Ostra del Pacifico | 6.2 | 67 | 2 | 23 | 2 | 94 | ||
| Prothotaca taca | Clam | Taca | 1.4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | ||||
| Total | 4853 | 4882 | 412,428 | 183 | 529 | 1032 | 423,907 | |||