Farmed salmon stocked up dramatically to change this industry

According to a recent report on the overall view of market competition between wild salmon and farmed salmon, there are complex and controversial issues.

The Great Salmon Run : Competition between Wild and Farmed Salmon (Great race: competition between wild and farmed salmon) is posted by Traffic, a trade control system for wildlife life. Wild and World Conservation Association set out two important trends that have revived the salmon industry over the last 25 years, farmed salmon releases only about 2% of the worldwide supply in 1980. but currently up to 65% in 2004.

About a quarter of fresh frozen salmon and consumed in the US today are farmed fish. In contrast, fish in the natural environment in North America suddenly dropped in price, suggesting that Alaska salmon yearly has dropped from more than $ 800 million in 1980 and less than $ 300 million today. The decline in the price of natural salmon has a major social and economic impact of natural hunters and fishermen communities.

Fresh Chinook fish caught in the Bering Sea and brought to the market (Photo: Sciencedaily)

Dr Gunnar Knapp, an economics professor at Alaska University, Anchorage and one of the study authors said that the supply of salmon from the wild will never respond to farmed salmon and in the organic report. The original is not to focus on whether the fish is natural or stocked, but whether each production method is properly implemented.

According to the report, the relatively rapid growth of farmed salmon increased the amount of supply, causing changes in the current types of salmon products, altering the production time and raising the quality standards of market. These changes also raise questions about environmental economics and trade. For example, what will natural salmon be? How long will North American fighting fish remain a competitive product.

One of the recommendations of the report is that the Fisheries Management Board will have to allow Alaska salmon producers to use the label of the Society to show consumers that the natural salmon they caught from long-term fishing grounds.

Research co-author Dr. Cathy Roheim and professor of economics at Rhode Island said labeling helps consumers choose to wear information.

The report also provides the following suggestions:

1. Regulating food safety standards
2. Detects and reduces environmental impacts both in natural salmon production and stocking
3. Provide accurate and symmetrical information about salmon related issues
4. Collect better data about seafood and consumer markets
5. Consider the role of hatching in natural production

Jihh Hepp of TRAFFIC North America said the report is a part of a complex technology that impacts both people and the environment. Hopefully, what this report will help industry and lawmakers protect natural salmon resources and the fishing industry has a lot of people living.

Anh Phuong