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Alaska: Salmon Prices Show Marked Seasonal Variations

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Salmon prices at wholesale show marked seasonal variations for both wild and farmed fish. It’s a pattern that has been tracked for decades by Urner Barry, the nation’s oldest commodity market watcher in business since 1895. The prices tend to decline through June, July, August and September and they begin rising again from November through the following April or May.

Two things drive the well-established pattern, said market expert John Sackton who publishes Seafood.com, an Urner-Barry partner.

“There’s a growth cycle for farmed salmon when they eat more and grow faster at certain times of the year, and so the harvests, particularly those that come into the US market from Chile for example, really peak in June, July and August, which are our summer months and the winter months in Chile,” Sackton explained. “Then there is the opening of the wild salmon season each summer and all of a sudden you get a lot more diversity and availability of Alaskan salmon.”

Sackton said buyers of both wild sockeyes and farmed salmon are starting to push back a bit on high prices. That’s likely reflected in the $3.50 advances for the first reds at Copper River in mid-May, which was down 50 cents from last year’s starting price.

A big wild card for North American salmon this summer is the projected 72 million sockeye return at British Columbia’s Fraser River. Sackton said Japanese buyers, who have been somewhat priced out of the sockeye market in recent years because there has been so much demand elsewhere and a drop in the yen has made it harder for them to buy, are hoping that a big run will open up more opportunities for them. Even though they’ve been buying less, Japan is still an important part of a three legged stool.

www.thefishsite.com

Alaska: Slow Start to Alaska Salmon Season

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Trollers in Southeast Alaska provide fresh king salmon nearly year round, but the runs of reds and kings to the Copper River mark the “official start” of Alaska’s salmon season.

On May 15 the fleet of more than 570 fishermen set out their nets on a beautiful day for the first 12 hour opener amidst the usual hype for the first fish.

Prices for the first fish dipped a bit – Copper River Seafoods posted advance sockeye prices at $3.50 and $6.00 for kings; that compares to $4.00 and $6.00-$7.00, respectively, for last year’s opener.

In what has become a traditional rite of spring, Alaska Airlines whisked away the first 24,000 pounds of the famous fish to Seattle where pilots traversed a red carpet to hand deliver a 48 pound king salmon to three chefs for a cook-off at Sea-Tac Airport. At least five other jets carried fresh fish from Cordova to eager buyers throughout the US, as well as to Anchorage.

Sockeyes are by far Alaska’s most valuable salmon, typically worth about two-thirds of the total statewide salmon haul. But in terms of global supply, wild sockeye are rare creatures – they account for about 5 percent of all wild and farmed production, and represent just 15 percent of the world’s wild salmon harvest.

Alaska typically accounts for 70 percent or more of global sockeye production, with nearly half of that coming from Bristol Bay. The U.S. is the single largest market, purchasing nearly 44 percent by value in 2012. Japan and the U.K. are next, followed by Canada.

Alaska’s sockeye salmon catch this year is projected at nearly 34 million fish, five million more than last year. Average statewide price last year was $1.60, an increase of 30 cents from 2012.

www.thefishsite.com

Alaska: Good Prices for Halibut and Sablefish Harvesters

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US – The basic laws of supply and demand are resulting in a nice pay day for Alaska halibut and sablefish harvesters. Prices for both fish are up by more than a dollar a pound compared to the same time last year.

Fresh halibut has been moving smoothly and demand is steady since the fishery opened in early March, said a major Kodiak buyer, where dock prices were reported at $6 a pound for ten to 20 pounders, $6.25 for halibut weighing 20 to 40 pounds, and $6.50 for “40 ups.”

At Homer and in Southeast Alaska, halibut prices have yet to drop below six bucks a pound, said local processors. Dock prices at Homer last week ranged from $6.50 to $7.00 per pound “for very small loads.”

At Southeast, after reaching a high of $6.75 at Easter, halibut prices were $6.60/$6.40 /$6.10 per pound. Processors are reporting “strong halibut catches and lots of nice fish”. The fresh fish is being flown out almost daily from Southeast and distributed in small lots to markets all over the US. Alaska’s total halibut catch this year is close to 16 million pounds.

For sablefish, commonly called black cod, longliners are benefitting from “bare cupboards” and strong demand by buyers in Japan, where the bulk of Alaska’s catch goes. Last year, holdovers in freezers pushed prices down 40% to the $5 to $3 per pound range, depending on fish size.

Black cod is usually priced in five weights, ranging from under three pounds to over seven pounds. At Kodiak the breakout was $6.75 – $5.75 – $5.00 -$4.50 and $4.00. Sablefish prices at Homer were running between $4 and $7 a pound. Southeast processors reported prices at $5.30 to $7 a pound at the docks. Alaska’s sablefish catch this year is about 24 million pounds. Most deliveries are going to Seward, followed by Kodiak and Homer.

www.thefishsite.com

Alaska’s Halibut and Black Cod Harvest Season Opens Saturday

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Alaska’s wild halibut and black cod (sablefish) harvest season opens Saturday, March 8, 2014 at 12:00 PM local time. Statewide Total Allowable Catch (TAC) limits for Alaska halibut and black cod are set at 16.8 million pounds and 33.6 million pounds respectively. Alaska is home to over 95% of the Pacific halibut and over 70% of the black cod harvested in the United States. Like all species of Alaska seafood, Alaska halibut and black cod are wild and sustainable, as mandated by the Alaska Constitution. Alaska’s science-based fishery management practices are considered a world model.

The International Pacific Halibut Commission (IPHC) is responsible for setting the annual halibut harvest limit based on stock assessments and halibut biology, and the North Pacific Fishery Management Council (NPFMC) makes allocative decisions based on that quota. The Alaska black cod fisheries are both federally and state managed, with the NPFMC reviewing the annual stock assessment and harvest limits for fisheries in federal waters and the State of Alaska managing the fisheries in state waters.

The largest of all flatfish, Alaska halibut is prized for its mild, sweet flavor, firm texture, and spectacular results whether grilled, roasted, sautéed, or poached. Alaska black cod offers a beautiful snow-white fillet, perfect flake, and succulent velvety texture. Along with being excellent roasted, sautéed, and poached, Alaska black cod is ideal for smoking.

www.alaskaseafood.org

US (AK): Proposed 2014 Halibut Catch Down 21 per cent

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The recommendations for next year’s halibut catches are down again for all regions in the USA except Southeast Alaska.

Fishery scientists with the International Pacific Halibut Commission have recommended a 2014 coast wide commercial catch total of 24.45 million pounds, a 21% decrease from the 31 million pounds allowed for this year. That includes catches in Alaska, British Columbia and the Pacific Coast states.

In a summation at a meeting in Seattle last week, the IPHC said: “The results of the 2013 stock assessment indicate that the Pacific halibut stock has been declining continuously over much of the last decade as a result of decreasing size-at-age, as well as recruitment strengths that are much smaller than those observed through the 1980s and 1990s.”

Here are the proposed catch limits for Alaska regions in millions of pounds, compared to the totals from 2013 in parentheses: Southeast Alaska (2C) – 4.16 (2.97); Central Gulf (3A) – 9.43 (11.03); Western Gulf (3B) – 2.84 (4.29); Alaska Peninsula (4A) – 0.85 (1.33); Aleutian Islands region (4B) – 0.82 (1.45); Bering Sea (4CDE) 0.64 (1.94).

Final decisions on the catch limits, season start date and regulation changes will be made by the IPHC at its annual meeting, Jan. 13-17 in Seattle. While the Pacific halibut catches have been declining for decade, the value of the fishery has been on a downward trend for the past four years.

Near the end of each year bills are sent out to Alaska longliners who hold shares of the halibut and sablefish (black cod) catches. They are required to pay an annual fee to the federal government to cover the costs for managing and enforcing those fisheries. The fee, which is capped at three percent, is based on dock prices and averaged across the state.

The billings were mailed out in late November to 2,024 fishermen, 90 fewer than last year, according to Troie Zuniga, fee coordinator for NOAA Fisheries in Juneau.

This year the combined halibut and sablefish fisheries paid a fee of 2.8%, which yielded $5 million for coverage costs.

For halibut, the overall dockside value of the 2013 fishery was $105 million, and about $72 million for black cod.

“That’s about $32 million lower than the 2012 value for halibut and $37 million lower for black cod,” Zuniga said, adding that it reflects a fishery value decline of nearly 28 percent over four years.

In terms of fish prices, the average for halibut this year was $5.06 per pound compared to $5.87 last year; for sablefish, an average price of $2.84 per pound is a drop from $4.11 in 2013.

www.thefishsite.com

Salmon roe prices will decrease

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Vitaly Kornev, President of the Association of Fish Market Industrial and Commercial Enterprises, said that after the new year the price of salmon roe in Russia may collapse.

Now, there is enough salmon roe on the Russian market, but the demand for it is not high because of the high price (about 1050-1100 rubles per kilo) .

Kornev said that in 2013/2014 the situation may be the same as it was in 2010/2011, when before New Year 140-gram can of salmon roe was supplied to retailers for 200 rubles, and in May 2011 it was sold for 99 rubles.

Usually, the price for salmon roe are determined by the volumes of harvest in Russia, but this year the most part of fish apparently went to Alaska shores, where very high catch was recorded this year. Salmon roe from Alaska will be supplied to Russia in the end of October.

Source: www.sfera.fm

Russia has arranged salmon roe delivery from the USA

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Wholesale prices for salmon roe, which had soared by 70 percent this summer due to a downfallen beginning of the salmon fishing season, have rolled back and may go down even more. A number of processors have purchased almost 1,500 tons of frozen salmon roe in the USA; the roe is offered at the Moscow wholesale market at the price of 800-900 rubles per kilo, while the average price is 1,200-1,300 rubles per kilo.

The average wholesale salmon roe price in Kamchatka by the end of September amounted to 1,500-1,700 rubles per kilo, according to Federal Fishing Agency. “The salmon roe value has almost come back, the aggregate increase has not exceeded 10 percent”, says Alexander Saveliev, spokesman of Rosrybolovstvo. As Kommersant wrote on July 22, due to a downfallen beginning of the salmon fishing season, the wholesale salmon roe prices in Kamchatka region, which provides for 40-60 percent of salmon roe production, had soared by almost 70 percent, up to 2,100-2,500 rubles per kilo. “By the middle of the fishing season the volume of salmon harvest has increased and now almost reached 400 thousand tons. The market will receive about 15-16 thousand tons of salmon roe, which is enough to satisfy the domestic demand”, says Mr. Saveliev explaining the reasons for the drop in prices. According to Mr. Saveliev, in September the market received a large volume of salmon roe, primarily from Sakhalin, where the fishing season was successful. However, in central Russia the average wholesale prices for salmon roe range from 1,200 to 1,300 rubles per kilo, which is lower than in Kamchatka. Large processors say that the prices dropped because of the increased import of roe in skeins or frozen roe from the United States.

According to the Federal Customs Service, as of August the volume of such imported roe worth more than $13 million almost reached 1,500 tons. The declared customs value of 89 percent of the salmon roe was $7-9 per kilo. “In Moscow the wholesale price for this roe is 800-900 rubles per kilo. The customs clearance price conveys the suggestion that this is either the last year’s stock since the fresh roe price at actions this year is $18-25 per kilo, or the importers have underestimated the customs value and the government has not received 170 million rubles as duties and VAT”, indignantly remarks Alexander Saveliev.

The annual output of processed packaged salmon roe in Russia is 11-13 thousand tons, which is 28.6-30 billion rubles per year (at processors’ prices including VAT).

The market participants believe that such situation results from the conflict between the processors from the central region and the Far East. Herman Zverev, head of the Fishery and Aquiculture Commission of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, told Kommersant that Kamchatka and Sakhalin producers had put into operation a large number of on-site processing plants and facilities, having considerably reduced the volume of supply of green salmon roe to the processors in the Central Federal Region (CFR). “If earlier producers had to sell at least 30-35% of green salmon roe on the price terms offered by the processors from the European part of Russia, now they can dictate terms to the processors”, remarked the expert.

This is confirmed by the statistical data: in 2010-2011 deliveries of green salmon roe to the European part of Russia amounted to about 4,000 tons per year. In 2012 this volume went down to 1,500 tons. “Processors in the Central Federal Region had nothing to do but purchase salmon roe from abroad, all the more so at a lower price. Judging by the volume of import, they have just made up for the lack of green salmon roe”, assuredly said one of the representatives of the industry.

But the conflict may have more serious consequences both for the producers and processors and the industry as a whole. The experts of the Russian Federal Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIIRO) said that in Alaska, as well as in Russia, the catch was low in the beginning of the salmon fishing season, but at the end the situation has improved, and as a result Alaskan fishermen managed to catch about 600 thousand tons of pink salmon alone, which will provide an average roe output of about 24 thousand tons. “Since the demand for salmon roe in the United States is scanty, significant volumes of salmon roe will be exported, including export to Russia”, believes Mikhail Glubokovsky, Director of VNIIRO. According to the expert, this means that the salmon roe price may go down even more, and therefore neither producers nor processors would be able to get a decent margin.

Source: Svetlana Mentiukova, Kommersant Newspaper

 

Институт маркетинга морепродуктов Аляски на выставке ExpoHoReCa 2013

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С 1 по 3 марта 2013 года в Санкт-Петербурге прошла 11-я международная специализированная выставка индустрии гостеприимства “ExpoHoReCa 2013″, в которой уже не в первый раз принимал участие Институт маркетинга морепродуктов Аляски.

В рамках Гастрономического салона “Кулинарный Олимп” были организованы показательные выступления отечественных и зарубежных шеф поваров, в том числе проводились мастер классы по приготовлению блюд из черной трески из Аляски.

Среди приготовленных блюд:

Итальянский томатный суп с черной треской, кубиками помидора и зеленью

Треска, томленая в сметанно-лимонном соусе с листьями салата Мангольд и молодым картофелем

Треска в кляре с морковным пюре и карамелизованными дольками корня сельдерея

Черная треска по-польски с молодым картофелем (на фотографии)

Гости выставки могли не только узнать новые рецепты из черной трески из Аляски, но и узнать больше о ее полезных свойствах и оценить ее необычный и нежный вкус.

Презентация морепродуктов Аляски в Днепропетровске

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14 декабря 2012 в Днепропетровске состоялась презентация морепродуктов Аляски, при поддержке Института маркетинга морепродуктов Аляски и министерства сельского хозяйства США. Мероприятие проходило   в самом большом рыбном супермаркете Днепропетровска «Рыбный мир «ОКЕАНИЯ», (улица Набережная Ленина 31-А).

В презентации приняли участие: атташе по вопросам сельского хозяйства Посольства США в Украине Рендалл Хейгер (Rendall Hager) и представитель Института маркетинга морепродуктов Аляски по Северной и Восточной Европе Эндрю Браун (Andrew Brown), который отметил, что за последние несколько лет, количество рыбной продукции Аляски в Украине стало в десятки раз больше. Это связано с продвижением экологически чистой и полезной рыбы и морепродуктов на отечественный рынок. На сегодняшний день, украинцы знают и доверяют продуктам Аляски, и это доверие  оправдано качеством.

Важно отметить, что объем ввозимых из США морепродуктов в Украину за последние годы значительно вырос  и по сравнению с ситуацией на начало мирового финансового кризиса  объемы торговли американскими  морепродуктами  полностью восстановились, более того продуктовая линия стала на много разнообразнее. Впервые украинские потребители открыли для себя американские морепродукты  в середине 2000-х и с тех пор количество и ассортимент представленной рыбы стал значительно шире, а потребление рыбы в Украине росло. Традиционным, дешевым разновидностям рыбы украинцы все чаще стали  предпочитать более дорогую и высококачественную.

В магазине “Рыбный мир “ОКЕАНИЯ” продаются горбуша, минтай, камбала и красная икра из Аляски.

Рыба и морепродукты Аляски обитают в условиях дикой природы Тихого океана.  Воды севера Америки – являющиеся средой их обитания – признаны одними из самых чистых в мире. Рыболовный промысел Аляски отвечает современным техническим требованиям сохранения безопасности и качества продукции. Вылов осуществляется в соответствии со строгим законодательством и контролируется на государственном уровне с целью сохранения природных ресурсов и возобновляемости популяций в естественной среде.

В преддверии  презентации морепродуктов компании АЛЯСКА, с  28 ноября по 14 декабря  в супермаркете  «Рыбный мир «Океания»  проводился конкурс кулинарных рецептов «Готовим  с морепродуктами АЛЯСКИ».

В конкурсе участвовали  только продукты из АЛЯСКИ, которые в магазине были  выделены специальным знаком. Для участия в акции достаточно купить любую продукцию из АЛЯСКИ, приготовить из нее любимое блюдо и поделиться своим фирменным рецептом, записав его на обратной стороне флера, который можно было взять в магазине «Рыбный мир «ОКЕАНИЯ».  Победителей акции определили  на розыгрыше призов 14 декабря. Главным призом конкурса стала мультиварка, которая сразу нашла своего счастливого обладателя Елену.

Презентация мороепродуктов Аляски. Рыбный мир Океания в Днепропетровске

Институт маркетинга морепродуктов Аляски: приглашаем на наши стенды на выставках World Food Moscow 2012 и ПИР 2012

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World Food Moscow 201217-20 сентября 2012
«Экспоцентр» на Красной Пресне, Москва

Павильон 3, стенд Е217

 

 

        ПИР 2012
        25-28 сентября 2012
        Крокус Экспо, Москва,
        Павильон 14, стенд 2G24

 

Институт Маркетинга Морепродуктов Аляски (Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute) – это партнерство государства и частных рыбопромышленных компаний штата Аляска. Институт играет ключевую роль в продвижении Морепродуктов Аляски и определяет их место на мировом рынке.

В чистых водах Аляски обитают различные виды диких рыб и моллюсков – это и морепродукты премиум-класса, в том числе пять видов рыб семейства лососевых(чавыча, нерка, кижуч, горбуша и кета), белокорый тихоокеанский палтус, черная треска, или угольная рыба, морской гребешок и разные виды крабов(королевский краб, дандженесский краб и снежный краб), там также водится рыба, которая больше подойдет для обычного семейного обеда – треска, минтай и камбала. В зависимости от сезона вся рыба и морепродукты поступают к потребителям в свежем, замороженном, консервированном или копченом виде.

Морепродукты Аляски обитают в исключительно чистой ледяной воде в тысячах километрах от экологически нестабильных зон, они питаются естественной пищей, и кроме того дикие рыбы Аляски идут по своим природным путям миграции из рек в океан и обратно, именно поэтому в них содержится совсем мало жира, их текстура такая плотная, и на вкус они такие нежные. Все морепродукты Аляски не содержат искусственных красителей и ароматизаторов.

Дополнительную информацию об рыбе и морепродуктах штата Аляска можно получить на сайтах www.alaskaseafood.ru и www.alaskaseafood.org

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