 The company sold its nearby fish farm to a local businessman for £1 in July 2008, who has since been given permission to commence repair work on the weir.Mowi's operations have been severely affected in the south of Chile, where millions of fish have died by the disease infectious salmon anemia.The rapid propagation of the virus has motivated the enterprise to sell some of its facilities, firing more than a thousand employees, with the aim of moving its installations further south to the Aisén Region.