Global salmon production up 15% in 2012?

Last week at Aqua Nor’s finance seminar, keynote speaker Professor Frank Asche said world production of Atlantic salmon will hit almost 1.8 million metric tons next year.

This entails growth of an estimated 230,000 metric tons, or close to a 15 percent increase, from 2011 to 2012.

It's also more than twice the growth from 2010 to 2011, when production grew 7 percent by some 100,000 metric tons.

The 15 percent estimate was discussed in the corridors of Aqua Nor after Asche’s address.

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