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The Norwegian Seafood Council (NSC) said Norway exported 119 metric tons of fresh salmon to China in the first week of July. Photo: Randomix/Flickr

EU farmed salmon exports to China see signs of life after COVID-19 scare

Farmed salmon sales to China are slowly recovering after a difficult month of bad press.

13 July 2020 12:03 GMT Updated  13 July 2020 12:03 GMT
By IntraFish Media

European exports of farmed salmon to China are gradually restarting after a temporary halt due to a coronavirus scare, reports Reuters.

Many Chinese buyers halted imports of salmon and the fish was removed from supermarket shelves after the novel coronavirus was found on a chopping board used to cut salmon at a large food market in Beijing last month.

Chinese consumers still shunning farmed salmon in wake of COVID-19 scare: 'There is no demand'
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Officials in China and Norway, one of the world’s top farmed salmon exporters, later concluded that imported salmon wasn’t the source of the contamination.

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