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Article: Smoked salmon: thanks to a surplus of farmed fish, smoked salmon has become more than an expensive Christmas treat. (Product Spotlight).(Industry Overview)
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- Seafood Business
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- January 1, 2002
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Not too long ago, smoked salmon was exclusively an expensive delicacy on the menus of upscale restaurants, on the shelves of gourmet food stores and in the pages of mail-order holiday catalogs.
Now supermarkets are retailing individually packaged smoked-salmon fillets for less than $5, and run-of-the-mill restaurants are preparing smoked-salmon salads, sandwiches and fish and chips for less than $10.
The smoked-salmon market has grown immensely since the mid-1990s, when Atlantic-salmon farmers began supplying smokers with an abundance of inexpensive product year-round.
Farmed-salmon production increases yearly, and prices hit unprecedented lows ...