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…