While the aquaculture industry was taking a beating in the media, producers have been busy counting the money flowing in this year, in quantities previously undreamed of.
“Never before have their earnings been nearly as good. In 2010 they are achieving the all-time highest level of profit. Maybe that is why they are getting such a beating in the media,” DnB Nor Markets analyst Klaus Hatlebrekke told IntraFish.
His estimates show that salmon producers have achieved sales f around NOK 34 billion (€4.3