US$1.2 billion in salmon sales
The strongest market demand continues to come from the United States and Japan, but the countries that follow are surprising.
From a pie-chart perspective, the market distribution for Chilean salmon in terms of sales is as follows:
38% for the U.S.
33% for Japan
11% for Other Countries (meaning Russia, Thailand, China, South Korea, and “others”)
10% for the E.U.
8% for Latin America.
More interesting however is the breakdown of the last three groupings of countries. In actual sales numbers, the top ten countries are as follows:
U.S., US$ 465 million;
Japan, US$ 409 million;
Germany, US$ 64 million;
Brazil, US$ 54 million;
Russia, US$ 46 million;
France, US$ 29 million;
Thailand, US$ 19 million;
China, US$ 15 million;
South Korea, US$ 15 million;
Belgium, US$ 13 million.
Within the U.S., 92% of sales correspond to Atlantic salmon. Within Japan, 51% of sales correspond to trout and 40% of sales correspond to coho.