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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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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August 7, 2026
New data from the Norwegian Seafood Council, aggregated by the SeafoodSource Pricing Portal, puts the price for all categories of Norwegian salmon at the end of Week 31 (2 August) at NOK 77.52 per kilogram (USD 8.14, EUR 7.05) up from NOK 74.54 per kilogram (USD 7.82, EUR 6.78) one week earlier, on 26 July. This price includes processing and shipping costs and losses, and is thus higher than the FCA Oslo prices published by Sitagri and… Read More
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August 6, 2026
Prices for Atlantic salmon from Norway rose across every weight category in Week 31, according to salmon benchmarking platform Sitagri Salmon Index.
According to Sitagri, which reports prices for head-on gutted (HOG) whole fresh fish in FCA Oslo at the first point of sale to exclusively European buyers, the Week 31 average for 3- to 6-kilogram salmon, the most popular weight, was NOK 69.94 (USD 7.34, EUR 6.36) per kilogram, up NOK 3.03 (USD… Read More
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August 4, 2026
Aberdeenshire, Scotland-based Peterhead Market, the U.K.'s biggest fishing port by landing volume, reported an average price for wild-caught Atlantic cod of GBP 7.38 (USD 9.93, EUR 8.62, NOK 94.61) per kilogram on 3 August, up GBP 0.14 (USD 0.19, EUR 0.16, NOK 1.79) per kilogram week over week from the 27 July price of GBP 7.25 (USD 9.75, EUR 8.46, NOK 92.91) per kilogram.
Haddock prices were down week over week (WoW) as of 3 August, falling to… Read More
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July 30, 2026
Poland and the Netherlands were the two biggest export markets for all categories of Norwegian salmon in weeks 29 and 30 of 2026, data aggregated by the SeafoodSource Pricing Portal and produced by the Norwegian Seafood Council has shown. China, Spain, and France rounded out the rest of the top five markets by mass during both weeks.
Spain and China saw the highest average export prices for all categories of Atlantic salmon in the same time… Read More
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July 30, 2026
Both the SeafoodSource Pricing Portal and Sitagri Salmon Index have reported that prices for fresh, whole Atlantic salmon from Norway climbed in Week 30.
The Pricing Portal put the 26 July average price of salmon in the category at NOK 71.30 (USD 7.36, EUR 6.46) per kilogram, up NOK 1.42 (USD 0.15, EUR 0.13), or 2.0 percent, from NOK 69.88 (USD 7.21, EUR 6.33) per kilogram one week prior on 19 July. Sitagri reported a Week 30 price of
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July 28, 2026
Aberdeenshire, Scotland-based Peterhead Market, the U.K.'s biggest fishing port by landing volume, reported an average price for wild-caught Atlantic cod of GBP 6.49 (USD 8.66, EUR 7.60) per kilogram in July, data from the SeafoodSource Pricing Portal has shown. That average was made up of 16 reporting days.
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Shetland Market, located at Lerwick, the main port of Scotland's northeastern Shetland Island… Read More
