How Norway Created Salmon Sushi

Re:How Norway Created Salmon Sushi by reitanqild on Saturday September 19, 2015 @10:06AM (#10244320)

  When somebody tries to farm new salmon (in France or Spain 
  or whatever) they typically flood the market with below cost 
  salmon or trouts until the competence is distroyed by lack of
  rentability.

10 years ago (I think) Norwegian salmon farmers was penalized big time by EU authorities. Haven't heard about anything since then and I refuse to think that Scottish aquafarmers would pass up an opportunity to get the Norwegians in hot water unless you have sources.

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Re:How Norway Created Salmon Sushi by pvaldes on Saturday September 19, 2015 @11:10AM (#10244452)

Dozens, maybe thousands of european salmon farming small companies vanished about 15 years ago and dumping was the final nail in the coffin. I could tell you some histories that producers said to me, but all is a little more complex than that. In the last 10 years we have a big recession in Europe by the scam. You can not expect a lot of regrowth inside Europe.

We have also two big and destructive tsunamis: Indonesia 2005 and Japan 2011. Ironically the banda-aceh tsunami that wipped entire villages favoured a vigorous regrowth of the aquaculture sector from India to Philipines because: 1-the fisher float was distroyed and 2-survivors were mortally afraid of working at the ocean. The sector in Japan have enough economical muscle to survive practically unscathed to the 2011 disaster. Another consequence was a renewed interest of the investors in South-America; and of course China is growing at at impressive "bigger-better-faster" pace that the rest of the world, as always. Aquaculture of trout and salmon in the south of europe is currently frozen and probably will never recover

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