date:Apr 10, 2013
id Paul Aandahl, the councils senior market analyst. This strong price rise has resulted in record value for Norwegian Salmon exports.
Prices have been trending upward since October 2012, according to the council. In the first quarter of 2013, those prices got a further push upward when exports to the EU went up three percent, or 3,800 metric tons (MT), with the highest amounts of fish going to Poland, the United Kingdom and Germany. The increase happened despite lower-than-usual volumes of exp