Farmed or wild, salmon prices to stay high

With farmed salmon prices up about 30 percent since the start of the year, don’t expect Alaska’s production to bring prices down.

“They won’t have any effect at all,” says a CEO of a company whose primary product is Alaska salmon. “Farmed prices are going to stay where they are for a while, not recede, then if harvesting and biomass start coming out of the water in a bigger way in August and September, then you’ll see the prices moderate.”

Feed costs remain high and even if far…


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