The Lofoten fishery exploits the spawning migration of the Northeast- Arctic cod and is one of the fisheries in the world with the longest history. Since 1860, data on participation and catches in the Lofoten fishery are available. For about a hundred years, labor productivity in this fishery, measured as...
Tins paper addresses the importance of different product farms and their origin when considering the market structure in the European salmon market. The competition between Farmed Atlantic salmon and wild-caught pacific salmon has received some attention previously. However, this was before frozen Atlantic salmon emerged as an important product form...
The formulation of demand functions for aquatic products has been prevalently practiced worldwide, but
still represents a rather new phenomenon in the area of applied economics in Vietnam. This paper focuses
on estimates of demand functions for Norwegian salmon products. Log-linear functions are used to construct the model. The major...
Ex-vessel price formation of fish in Iceland has been a stumbling stone within the fisheries for a long period of time. Fish as a raw material for processing has been sold either in direct sales or through auction markets leading to different prices. In many cases direct sales leads to...
Global warming is expected to affect the ecosystem in the Northeast Atlantic, and sufficient changes will also affect
the aquaculture industry. Farming of salmon and trout is the biggest aquaculture industry in Norway. The export
value was about 2 billion US dollars in 2005. The objective of the paper is...
The Spanish market is the most important market for hake and hake has been for many years the demersal fish most captured in Spain. To the traditional product differentiation due to size, gear and presentation form (fresh, frozen and frozen fillets), a new differentiation can be performed regarding the hake...