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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September 11, 2026
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- The Reston, Virginia, U.S.A.-headquartered Global Shrimp Council (GSC) named Esther Luiten executive director amid the marketing organization’s expansion efforts, which… Read More
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September 10, 2026
The Sitagri Salmon Index reported price declines for Atlantic salmon from Norway in Week 36 (31 August – 6 September).
Sitagri, which reports FCA Oslo prices from European producers for whole HOG fish, put the weekly all-sizes average price at NOK 65.13 (USD 7.04, EUR 6.07) per kilogram, down NOK 1.20 (USD 0.13, EUR 0.11), or 1.8 percent, week over week (WoW), from last week's all sizes average of NOK 66.33 (USD 7.17, EUR 6.19) per… Read More
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September 8, 2026
Norwegian seafood exports for August were up NOK 1.9 billion (USD 0.20 billion, EUR 0.18 billion), or 14 percent, year-over-year (YoY), the Norwegian Seafood Council (NSC) reported.
According to the industry advocacy group, the total value of the month's exports was NOK 16 billion (USD 1.71 billion, EUR 1.48 billion).
"Despite the Norwegian krone being significantly stronger than in the same month last year, the value of seafood exports in… Read More
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September 4, 2026
Data from Statistics Norway, aggregated by the SeafoodSource Pricing Portal, put the average global export price for all categories of Norwegian salmon in Week 35 at NOK 79.59 (USD 8.54, EUR 7.35) per kilogram, down week over week (WoW) from the Week 24 average price of NOK 81.41 (USD 8.74, EUR 7.52) per kilogram.
That price was the average of all the export prices reported by Statistics Norway, which does not report data on every market… Read More
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September 3, 2026
Both the SeafoodSource Pricing Portal and the Sitagri Salmon Index reported price declines for Atlantic salmon from Norway in Week 35 (24-30 August).
The SeafoodSource Pricing Portal put the global Week 35 average price for whole, fresh Atlantic salmon from Norway at NOK 72.02 (USD 7.71, EUR 6.66) per kilogram, down NOK 1.55 (USD 0.17, EUR 0.14), a 2.2 percent decline, from NOK 73.57 (USD 7.88, EUR 6.81) per kilogram in Week 34.
Sitagri, which… Read More
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August 21, 2026
Data from the Statistics Norway, aggregated by the SeafoodSource Pricing Portal, put the average global export price for all categories of Norwegian salmon at the end of Week 33 (16 August) at NOK 80.60 (USD 8.67, EUR 7.42) per kilogram, down from NOK 83.14 (USD 8.94, EUR 7.65) at the end of Week 32 (9 August).
China paid the highest export prices per kilogram for all categories of Norwegian salmon in Week 33, an average of NOK 84.61 (USD… Read More
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August 20, 2026
Both the SeafoodSource Pricing Portal and the Sitagri Salmon Index have reported declining prices for Atlantic salmon from Norway in Week 33, the first time prices have dropped since Week 29.
The SeafoodSource Pricing Portal put the global Week 33 average for whole, fresh fish at NOK 73.76 (USD 7.83, EUR 6.77) per kilogram, while Sitagri reported FCA Oslo prices from European producers for whole HOG fish at NOK 68.96 (USD 7.32, EUR 6.33) per… Read More
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August 14, 2026
Data from the Norwegian Seafood Council, aggregated by the SeafoodSource Pricing Portal, put the average global export price for all categories of Norwegian salmon at the end of Week 32 – which ended 9 August – at NOK 81.22 (USD 8.54, EUR 7.42) per kilogram, up from NOK 79.18 (USD 8.33, EUR 7.23) per kilogram one week earlier.
China paid the highest prices per kilogram for all categories of Norwegian salmon in Week 32, with an average of NOK… Read More
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August 13, 2026
Both the SeafoodSource Pricing Portal and the Sitagri Salmon Index have reported rising Week 32 (3 to 9 August) prices for Atlantic salmon from Norway.
Additionally, exports by mass were again up across the whole fresh, whole frozen, and fresh fillet categories.
The SeafoodSource Pricing Portal, which aggregates information produced by Statistics Norway, put the average Week 32 (9 August) price for whole, fresh Atlantic salmon from Norway at… Read More
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August 11, 2026
Aberdeenshire, Scotland-based Peterhead Market, the U.K.'s biggest fishing port by landing volume, reportedprices for wild-caught Atlantic cod, which average to GBP 6.53 (USD 8.81, EUR 7.63, NOK 83.74) per kilogram in Week 32 of 2026 (which ran form 2 to 9 August). Peterhead does not report landing volumes publicly, and instead produces a weighted average of prices on report days, which SeafoodSource has then averaged. Over the course of the… Read More
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