Salmon heads the list of industrial exports to May

The annalists of the Sofofa explains that this decrease is because of the strong adjustment in volume of -11%, compensated by an increase in the prices of 9%.

Japan, the principal market with half of the value exported in the January-May period, accumulated a strong increase of 22%. This result compensated the strong fall of the salmon exports to the United States (-17%) and Europe (-44,2 %).

As was expected, May revealed a strong fall of the volumes due to the ISA virus. In the fifth month of the year, the salmon and trout exports went back -33% compared to 2008, the biggest recession since this organization publish this report.