Salmon

[matrixmann]

Can somebody explain me the price craze about salmon explicitly bred in aquaculture in Norway this year?
Over a year, the price for that kind of fish from that source has made quite an increase - and it seems to apply only to this source, as the same fish species caught in the wild isn't affected by it (the frozen food department also can offer you some not from Norway and it is quite a puzzle if you see two times the same packages with the same content (250 grams) only with different layout and different origin declared and the price of one of them is about twice the sum of the other).

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[onb2017.livejournal.com]

Haha, maybe they have hard time catching them?

[matrixmann]

I don't know what "aquaculture" means in detail in practice, but those are already artificially-bred fish to catch none from the seas.
Don't what's the matter in that part of the chain. If their kroner has a big curreny value hike or if something let the costs dramatically explode... See, I don't get it, but I've already taken notice that it explicitly only affects the salmon won through this source. If it says "caught from the wild", then the price isn't that high. Which mostly applies to the salmon fish you can find in the refrigerator section of the shops, as there you can also find some caught in nature.
Everything where they use fresh fish (e. g. sandwich filling), this comes from the Norway source.
I think, only the canned foods section also doesn't join the price hike (you know, canned fish, with or without sauce), but that done with salmon isn't available in every store anyway.

[onb2017.livejournal.com]

I don't know, maybe then the demand is high. But farming fish produces something with lots of antibiotics as I read because lots of fish living together get sick quickly but wild-caught on the other hand get all the contaminant from the environment.

[matrixmann]

High demand - well, about that I have no information. But that could always be possible.
Last winter, the crazy high prices for tomatoes, I read, were allegedly also due to suppliers from the UK buying a lot of them from the market because other markets either were closed to them ot there was some problem.
Result for the rest of Europe was that the prices climbed to heights.
If I remember correctly, for some other vegtables the prices in the UK were also exceptionally high.
So...
Well, that's a thought I also already developed.
Will see if anybody at any time gives me a hint or drop a note about this in his own area too.