The European Commission's trade department, DG Trade, has officially recognized Norway's export ban on low-quality salmon, so-called production fish, as a trade barrier.
In Norway, farmed salmon is graded superior, ordinary and production fish. Fish with any deformities or wounds are deemed production fish and it is illegal for Norwegian companies to export these fish without processing them first.
DG Trade has been investigating the legal and economic aspects of this ban since September.
