Marine Harvest Expects Slower World Salmon Growth, Sees Real Threat from Sea Lice
SEAFOODNEWS.COM by John Sackton March 5, 2015
Alf-Helge Aarskog - CEO of Marine Harvest, gave his annual update presentation at the North Atlantic Seafood Forum in Norway today.
Two main points emerged. First, global growth in farmed salmon will slow between now and 2020 to about half the rate of growth of the prior ten years. From 2003 to 2013, global production grew at an annual rate of 6%, from 1100 to 1850 thousand tons of head on gutted salmon. However, for the next eight years the projections are for a growth rate of only 3%...
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