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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Record diesel prices are currently having a profound effect on the global economy.
This week, I want to provide both a high level perspective of how those prices are shaping the seafood sector and an on-the-ground perspective on how one regional fishery is experiencing them.
For background on the global situation, I went to Tony Chen, CEO and co-found of aquaculture technology company Manolin, who also hosts the Fish n’ Bits
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Prices for Atlantic salmon came down slightly in Week 41, according to both the SeafoodSource Pricing Portal and the Sitagri Salmon Index. Both sources also reported volumes down in Week 41.
The Pricing Portal put the Week 41 global average price for whole fresh salmon at NOk 73.24 (USD 7.73, EUR 6.91), down NOK 1.16 (USD 0.12, EUR 0.11) from NOK 74.40 (USD 7.86, EUR 7.02) in Week 40. Sitagri reported an average price for all sizes of
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According to the Sitagri Salmon Index, large-size whole fresh HOG salmon from Norway has seen significant price increases over the last few weeks.
This week I’m exploring what these price increases, and the export volumes that Sitagri tracked for each size category, might tell us about salmon demand, particularly in China, where large fish (over 6 kilograms) are more desirable than in other markets.
According to the French
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