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Article: Norwegians still overpacking salmon, but move to cut down production costs. (QFFI's Global Seafood Magazine)
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- Quick Frozen Foods International
- Article date:
- January 1, 1995
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Norway still produces too much farmed salmon for the European market, and prices are still too low to bring a profit. But through improved techniques, salmon farmers have been able to cut production costs from $3.75 to $2.85 a kilogram.
Annual production of Norwegian farmed salmon ranges from 175,000 to 200,000 tons, far ahead of second-place Scotland (35,000 tons). Ireland and the Faroe Islands produce 10,000 tons each. To sell all that salmon, Norway is wooing Japan as well as France.
One recent step to reduce production costs is introduction of a local fish called the Berggylt into salmon cages. The Berggylt feed on the fish lice that afflict farmed salmon, ...