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Article: Wild and farmed salmon sellers go at it in lukewarm Japanese marketplace: Europe faces glut of Norwegian farmed salmon, and fights back with punitive tariffs. Sea lice said to infest farming operations, and threaten wild salmon with infection.
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- Quick Frozen Foods International
- Article date:
- October 1, 2005
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Could wild salmon make a comeback if farmed salmon get more bad publicity--this time about harboring sea lice? It's an issue that might become even hotter than PCB contamination and use of dyes in fanned salmon. But so far, it isn't having any effect on the industry.
In Japan, where wild and farmed salmon compete head on, sales of both have been slow this past summer. As of July, tonnage for frozen sockeye (primarily Alaskan) and coho (primarily Chilean) was running behind that for 2004, while fresh Atlantic salmon stood still.
True, the busy season for sockeye exports hadn't begun yet, with shipments at 14,740 tons through the end of July compared to ...