Japanese trading companies push for locally farmed salmon as imports to peak

It sounds like a great business opportunity. I hope it works out.

If Norway cant fully supply Japan you can always buy from Tasmanian ocean salmon farms. Tasmanian and Canadian salmon are high quality. The salmon I tasted when I was in Japan was inferior quality to Australian salmon. I found that quite surprising.

Fish poo is polluting the oceans? Not comparable to shipping pollution and such from ocean bordering countries? Seems hardly negligable.

Peter14

Tasmanian and Canadian salmon are high quality. 

I agree. But it doesn't stop there. Australian meat, fruit and vegetables are also top quality. Australia has some great food!

BertieWooster

Tasmanian and Canadian salmon are high quality. 

I agree. But it doesn't stop there. Australian meat, fruit and vegetables are also top quality. Australia has some great food!

Spot on Bertie! Absolutely true.

Will the prices drop now that it is not imported ???

Doubt it very much, they will come up with an excuse to even raise prices insert few Buzz words like Bio, or Net, or Vib and market it as Very Special breed that no one else has , this is how it always work, it's all in the Packaging.

I presume these Japanese ventures are all talking about Atlantic Salmon, if they are trying to augment Norwegian supplies.

Mitsubushi has been involved with fish farming since the 1960s and they brought salmon farming to Chile in te 1980s.

pumped full of antibiotics, eating their own feces, gray fish from a nasty diet and colored red to make it look edible.

perfect.

The sheer amount of water involved in ensuring the on-land salmon farming pens are clean and fresh must be astronomical. Businesses will be incentivized to cut costs, and thus will be incentivized to use poorly recycled water, or chemicals to "clean" the water, and will also gravitate towards smaller pens with more fish in each. Result: filthy, unhealthy fish. Enjoy your 120yen salmon sushi at the cheapo places.

salmon farming isn’t all its cracked up to be.

https://time.com/6957610/farmed-salmon-dying/

Patagonia (the company) released a documentary on salmon farming in Iceland recently. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfLBmMK1SAg