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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Published on
July 23, 2026
Prices for Norwegian salmon, according to the Sitagri Salmon Index, were up again in Week 29, which occurred from 13 to 19 July.
Sitagri reported that the average Week 29 price of all sizes of fresh, head-on gutted (HOG) Atlantic salmon from Norway was NOK 65.20 (USD 6.78, EUR 5.86) per kilogram, a 1.4 percent, or NOK 0.90 (USD 0.09, EUR 0.12), increase week over week.
The Week 29 average for 3- to 6-kilogram salmon, the most popular weight, was… Read More
Published on
July 22, 2026
Experts are predicting an especially strong El Niño this year, and the Chilean salmon industry is on high alert.
In Southern Chile a strong El Niño can produce warm and stagnant waters where algal blooms thrive. These blooms can harm the gills of salmon directly, and bloom die-offs deplete oxygen levels in water further.
The salmon industry has had to grapple with such die-offs in the past. In 2016, an El Niño event triggered an algal bloom… Read More
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July 17, 2026
Data out of the Norwegian Seafood Council, aggregated by the SeafoodSource Pricing Portal, showed a decline in the volume of Norwegian salmon exports to Poland in Week 28 (6 to 12 July), while several other major markets increased their imports of Norwegian salmon.
Despite an 11 percent decrease in import volumes for all categories of Norwegian salmon over the period in question, Poland was still the largest market for Norwegian salmon by a… Read More
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July 16, 2026
Prices for most categories of Atlantic salmon from Norway increased slightly over Week 28 (6 to 12 July) of 2026, while export totals declined.
At this point in the year, however, it is still unclear whether these changes represent the beginning of a price rebound driven by lower upcoming harvest volumes or if prices will continue to decline throughout the rest of the summer.
Traditionally, seasonal harvest peaks in the summer or fall cause… Read More
Published on
July 9, 2026
Prices for fresh, head-on gutted (HOG) Atlantic salmon from Norway have fallen again this week, reaching their lowest point so far this year, according to the Sitagri Salmon Index.
The week-over-week (WoW) decline was minimal, however, and expected given seasonal growth patterns and strong quarterly harvest reports out of some of the nation's biggest producers.
Sitagri, which produces a weekly price benchmark for Norwegian salmon at its first… Read More
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June 29, 2026
Norwegian exports of fresh salmon were up again in Week 25 (15 June to 21 June), according to data produced by the Norwegian Seafood Council and aggregated by the SeafoodSource Pricing Portal.
The biggest export market in Week 25 was, as usual, Poland, where much of the world’s processing of Norwegian salmon takes place. Poland saw a significant week-over-week (WoW) uptick in export mass from Norway in Week 25, bringing in 6.7 million… Read More
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June 25, 2026
Export prices for Atlantic salmon from Norway have fallen again, as export volumes continued to climb, representing an expected seasonal dynamic, though Q2 price averages this year are far lower than those recorded in the same time period in previous years.
On 21 June, at the start of Week 26, average export prices for whole fresh Atlantic salmon from Norway fell to NOK 70.31 (USD 7.18, EUR 6.52) per kilogram, according to the SeafoodSource… Read More
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June 22, 2026
The Global Shrimp Council (GSC) is preparing for its first in-person event at Los Angeles’s Venice Beach, where a “happy protein” branded airstream food truck will serve free shrimp to an expected crowd of 3,000 people during a four day event running from 6 to 9 August.
The producer-led pre-competitive marketing body has been working on its “happy protein” campaign since its unveiling at Seafood Expo North America in 2025. Since… Read More
Published on
June 19, 2026
Multiple sources are reporting that the average price of whole, fresh salmon from Norway has fallen again in Week 24, with prices trending lower this year than last year, overall.
The SeafoodSource Pricing Portal, which aggregates trade and physical market data to produce global and national export price averages for Atlantic salmon from Norway, put average prices for whole, fresh Atlantic salmon from Norway at the start of Week 25 at NOK 70.72… Read More
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June 11, 2026
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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