“If you go back at least to the 1980s, the basic situation by which fish are bought and sold and prices are set has been pretty much the same.”
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What about that salmon roe, bro?
How does the increasing price for salmon roe factor into fishermen’s paychecks?
Bristol Bay Town Hall meeting online Aug. 3 = markets, future options
Meeting will focus on markets, options for further actions.
Zero info on salmon prices. Bristol Bay fishermen are angry, frustrated.
Bristol Bay fishermen: “It’s not a sustainable way to do business.”
Wild US Seafood Act introduced by AK Senator Lisa Murkowski
Anyone using the label for ‘unfair or deceptive’ practice could be fined $10,000.
Intrafish: Alaska’s secret wild salmon prices hurt everybody
Secretive nature of price setting in AK salmon fisheries strains relationships between processors and fishermen who supply them.
Fishermen’s surveys ask: How catches are marketed; Opinions on monitoring of seafood imports
Fishermen’s direct marketing, how seafood imports are monitored are survey topics
Frozen sockeye prices continue to slide
Lots of frozen sockeye carryover from the 2022 season are pushing down wild salmon prices across the board.
Slow going for first salmon opener at Copper River
Media hoopla runs high for the first fresh fish but prices plummet at retail.
US salmon exports, values sank in 2022 except for sockeyes
Volumes and values of US salmon exports plummeted for all but sockeyes.