Leading producers of farmed salmon
Historically, the biggest player in the salmon industry was Norway, followed by Chile, the United Kingdom, and Canada. Norway was by far the biggest supplier of salmonids for the U.S., with almost seven million U.S. dollars’ worth of salmon imported into the U.S. in 2021. In 2022, approximately 971 million Canadian dollars' worth of Atlantic salmon was exported from Canada, an increase from around 928 million Canadian dollars worth in the previous year.Atlantic salmon market overview
The worldwide sales value of Atlantic salmon more than tripled its value between the years of 2009 and 2021. From 2016 on, the market price of salmon decreased every year, starting at around 6.72 euros per kilogram and ending at five euros per kilogram in 2020, before jumping back up again in 2021. In the past decade, the highest value of the salmon price index was 9.10 U.S. dollars per kilogram in 2016, and the as of 2022 the price was about 7.89 U.S. dollars per kilogram.
