Daily recap: Week 3 US wholesale prices live; Kodiak fleet forces higher prices for shrinking Tanner crab stocks

Here's a recap of the top daily seafood stories from Wednesday, Jan. 15.

• US wholesale: Week 3 seafood price assessments live

Undercurrent News' week three (Jan. 13-19) US wholesale price assessments for various key commodities are available on our new platform.

• Kodiak fleet forces higher prices for shrinking Tanner crab stocks

Kodiak harvesters in the US state of Alaska's crab fishery have banded together to force processors to compete with each other over the rapidly diminishing Tanner crab stocks, Undercurrent News?has learned.?

• Return of post-holiday cod supply prompts Norwegian price drop, but haddock, saithe hold

The second week of 2025 (Jan. 6-12) has seen a modest price correction on Norway's domestic whitefish auctions, although levels remain considerably higher than at the same stage of the last two years.

• Norway sets goal of bringing aquaculture mortalities under 5%

Norway's government launched a new parliamentary report on animal welfare late in 2024, some 20 years since the previous iteration.?

• Gap in Norway, Russia H&G cod prices for China narrows to smallest spread for year

Prices for trawl-caught, frozen, headed and gutted Norwegian Atlantic cod in US dollars have dropped in week three for Chinese buyers, with its Russian equivalent apparently firming slightly, sources told Undercurrent.

• Trade insights: Ecuador's November shrimp exports hit near-record

Ecuador's shrimp exports hit their second-highest monthly volume on record in November, driven by surging Chinese demand and strong growth in emerging Asian markets, according to trade data from Ecuador's National Chamber of Aquaculture.

• Strong biomass, weak interest again for Alaska's Togiak sac roe herring fishery

Fisheries biologists in the US state of Alaska project the fourth-largest biomass for Togiak herring in more than 30 years, butthat'ss likely not enough to lure processors for a commercial harvest.