Erin Spampinato is the Georgetown, Maine-based price reporting specialist of SeafoodSource. Erin has held staff writer and editor positions at a number of mission-driven organizations, and her freelance journalism has appeared in various publications, including Electric Literature and The Guardian. She is also the author of numerous academic publications on the topics of gender, literature, and history. Erin holds a PhD in English Literature from the Graduate Center, CUNY, an MA from Columbia University, and a BA from Smith College.
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Prices for fresh, head on gutted (HOG) Atlantic salmon from Norway have continued their price slump in Week 23, according to the Sitagri Salmon Index.
Sitagri, which produces a weekly price benchmark for Norwegian salmon at its first point of sale in Oslo, put the average price of all sizes of salmon in Week 23, which occurred between 1 and 7 June, at NOK 68.38 (USD 7.33, EUR 6.34) per kilogram. That represented a 5.9 percent, or NOK 4.28 (USD
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Prices for headed, gutted, whole, fresh Atlantic salmon from Norway have dropped again this week, according to salmon benchmarking firm Sitagri.
This makes 2026 the second year that has seen Q2 price declines in the category; as the above visualization of historical patterns demonstrates, prior to 2025, Q2 prices typically grew stronger after a post-holiday slump at the beginning of the year. In 2025, however, prices in the category were
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Prices for whole, fresh Atlantic salmon from Norway continued to slide downward in Week 20, with an average global price on 17 May, at the start of Week 21, of NOK 79.51 per kilogram (USD 8.56, EUR 7.06), down from NOK 85.00 per kilogram (USD 9.15, EUR 7.55) one week earlier on 10 May, according to the SeafoodSource Pricing Portal.
Prices for frozen whole salmon saw even bigger declines during the week, with the average global price of NOK 81.01
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