The Mitilicultora Industry is established in the Los Lagos Region, in the last decade it has presented an important growth in production volume in which it has gone from a production of 60,708 tons in 2003 to a total of 283,300 tons in 2015, generating a volume of exports of 69,499 tons equivalent to 201 million FOB dollars. What places Chile as the second largest world producer and world exporter of mussels.

The development of the mitiliculture industry has been determined by the strong demand for mussel products in international markets, mainly in European countries such as Spain, France, and Italy, which together with Russia and the United States, are the destinations that concentrate the 69% of Chilean exports of chorito or Chilean mussels.

The industrial fabric of this sector is made up of 619 companies, of which 89% are micro and small and 11% are large and medium-sized companies, which manage a total of 1,115 authorized aquaculture concessions for the production of mitilides, equivalent to 13,005 He has.

It generates more than 17,000 jobs, equivalent to 4% of the jobs in the region, and an estimated regional GDP of 7%, which is equivalent to all the contribution of the silvo agricultural sector.