Fishermen in southern Chile have been banned from picking shellfish after they became contaminated by a poisonous algae, dangerous to humans and other species.
The seafood trade is a multi-million dollar business and thousands of people are now out of work.
Al Jazeera’s Mariana Sanchez reports from Chiloe.
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