PRODUCTION: Global Salmon Review

摘要

Following two years of decline in the global harvest of farmed salmon and trout, growth returned in 2011, with global volumes expected to end some 10% above 2010 levels. 2011 was also expected to be the first year that combined volumes of ocean-farmedsalmonid species surpassed 2 million mt round weight. The Chilean "comeback" with Atlantic salmon was the major contributor to this growth, but Norway also added volume during the second half of the year. The first and second halves of 2011 told different stories, from a salmon perspective. From the first months of the year, when high salmon prices broke new records, sharp declines in prices really turned things around -with price levels dropping down to or even below break-even during some weeks of autumn.