She had previously written long-form fiction in the hope of "writing a book one day", she said, but had decided to "branch out" when she heard about the company's course.
Salmón Chile's chairman, Arturo Clements, says the government needs to do more to help the industry expand."For us it's been very difficult to grow, because we have too many regulations, and we have too many conflicts regarding the use of the sea," he says. "What we need is to define a long-term strategy regarding salmon farming."
Much of the conflict concerns the locations of many of the fish farms, which critics say are highly polluting.More specifically, there are 408 salmon farming concessions – licenses granted by the government that allow a company to operate a salmon farm in a specific area – within supposedly environmentally protected areas in Chile.These include 294 in national reserves, where limited commercial use of natural resources
And 29 in the more strictly controlled national parks, where business operations are officially not supposed to be permitted.Flavia Liberona is the executive director of Terram, a foundation that promotes sustainable development. In her hot and sticky office in an old building in the centre of Santiago she describes an environmental campaign that she's part of – Salvemos La Patagonia or Save Patagonia.
It wants to protect the natural habitat of the entire Chilean Patagonia region. This vast geographic area starts north of Puerto Montt and then extends all the way down to the very base of the country. And it is where most of the salmon farms are located, in its many fjords.
"We want the salmon farms to stop operating in the national parks and national reserves," says Ms Liberona.in Washington DC, in which 67 people died.
Footage of a plane flipping over after landing in poor weather in Toronto, Canada, has also been widely shared online, further fuelling alarm.And while polling on the subject is limited, one recent Associated Press survey suggested these startling images of accidents have
But BBC Verify has analysed data in the US and worldwide and found that over the past two decades there has been a general downward trend in air accidents.For the US, figures on air accidents have been compiled by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) up to the end of January this year.