With this year’s pink available for China processing -- either from Alaska or Sakhalin in Russia -- falling way short of what was expected, there is more pressure on chum, said Xiaohui Luo, operations and logistics manager with Chang International.
“That may explain the strong interest Hokkaido chum now from the Chinese processors. We are pretty much in the same boat,” Luo told IntraFish.
The company, which operates a processing plant in Qingdao, buys pink and chum salmon from Alaska, Russia and Hokkaido.
“Before
