Marine Harvest: Huge potential for salmon in the US market

While as many as 78 percent of Americans say they like the taste of salmon, they eat only 15.9 grams of it per week – just 6 percent of the recommended intake of seafood. Despite this low per capita consumption, the United States is the No. 1 salmon market in the world with a total consumption of 374,400 metric tons (MT) in 2015, and this total would immediately double if the population followed a similar consumption pattern to that of the EU, suggests Marine Harvest’s new Integra…