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China was the first country to start fish farming 100's of years ago, and are way ahead of most countries in their methods.
A guy named Fan Li wrote a paper on carp farming in China a couple hundred years b.c. Egypt was growing tilapia in their irrigation systems at about the same time. I think those Chinese scallops were brought there from the states. Those Chilean salmon are farm-raised Atlantic salmon. Lately, there has been an increase in aquaculture of species transported around the world. It still has problems, such as invasiveness of escaped transplants, but does bring cheap seafood to our markets. We have to really work on things in order to compete in today's global economy. It's really difficult to compete with people who live in more favorable climates for some of these species, have few environmental controls, and will work for pennies an hour.
I've also had those scallops in Digby, but the regular cook at the restaurant I ate at was out sick and whoever replaced him hadn't changed the oil in the fryolator for quite some time, so mine were lousy. But, Digby is famous for those scallops.
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