Bird Flu Hits Salmon

RUSSIA - Wholesale prices for fish escalated to historical peak by late past week, having climbed up to 100 percent depending on the fish in the past a month and a half.
The surge is attributed to the general lack of beef and pork on the market coupled with the bird flu and the subsequent drop in poultry’s popularity.

Wholesale prices for salmon fish (trout, salmon and hunchback salmon) grew the most. Salmon climbed from 155 rbl/kg in mid.-February to 200 rbl/kg today. The hunchback salmon stepped up from the recent 40 rbl/kg to 70 rbl/kg.

“The fish prices have never soared so high in Russia, it is the record level,” said Ledova President Nadezhda Kopytina.

The surge roots in a mixture of reasons. The Russian Federal Service for Phytosanitary and Veterinary Supervision, Rosselkhoznadzor, banned deliveries of chilled salmon and trout of Norway starting from 2006, trimming the weekly shipment of 600 tons to 700 tons of frozen and chilled salmon to roughly 500 tons of frozen salmon exclusively.

To continue reading this article please click here

Source: Kommersant