Overall imports reached 14.5 million metric tons through the period, worth $2.1 billion (€2.3 billion), a 1.4 percent rise in volume and a 3 percent rise in value.

Farmed salmon imports were one of the drivers in the rise, with imports rising 4.3 percent by volume to 216,180 metric tons over the nine months, and rising 7.2 percent to $1.97 billion (€2.2 billion).

Shrimp volumes rose 3.4 percent over the period, to 428,890 metric tons. The value of those imports, however, rose just 1.3