Supplies of farmed Atlantic salmon will remain tight this year thereby keeping average market prices at a high level of around EUR 7.20 (USD 7.64) per kg over the course of the next 12 months, according to Marine Harvest CEO Alf-Helge Aarskog.
Delivering the Norway-headquartered salmon producer’s fourth-quarter 2016 results, Aarskog confirmed that overall, the global farmed salmon supply in the last quarter fell by 10.5 percent or 61,200 metric tons (MT) year-on-year to 522,000 MT with the vo…