Daily recap: Norwegian whitefish, US wholesale snow crab prices soar ahead of Christmas holidays
Here's a recap of the top daily seafood stories from Thursday, Dec. 12.
Norwegian auction prices for headed and gutted (H&G) frozen cod and haddock have climbed once more in week 49 (Dec. 2-8), passing new milestones and thresholds with no sense yet that a new normal has been reached, according to the latest data from Norway's Norges Rafisklag auction.
Don't look now if you thought wholesale prices for snow crab (Chionoecetes opilio) were too high in April 2024 when they were up 19% from a year earlier. Now they're 40% higher than 12 months earlier, snow and king crab expert Les Hodges reports.
The EU's imports of pangasius were down in 2023, but Germany has established itself as the main consumer of fillets and the Spanish market looks to be recovering a little, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and Undercurrent?News'?trade portal.?
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A new report on snow crab quality is proof that Newfoundland and Labrador's inspection protocol is working and regulators should "stay the course," asserts Gerry Byrne, the fisheries minister for the Canadian province.
Premium salmon producer Victoria Island Smokehouse is pushing ahead with Asian market expansion plans after relocating production from Hong Kong to the UK, the company told Undercurrent at last month's China Fisheries and Seafood Expo in Qingdao, China.
Fisheries managers in the US state of Alaska have announced a 341,500 pound (155 metric ton) harvest for golden king crab in Southeast waters in 2025 -- a 25% increase over the previous season.
The Southern Shrimp Alliance, a group that represents domestic, wild-catch harvesters and processors of shrimp in the US Gulf of Mexico and southeastern coast, has expressed its opposition to one of president Joe Biden's nominees for the International Trade Commission.