Japanese fishermen can sell fresh mackerel to their supermarket chains at a lower price than frozen Norwegian mackerel. Additionally, the Japanese are exporting mackerel to China and South Korea.
This is just another story that illustrates how global the business of fish trading has become, and events in the market can have enormous impact on life for people in small coastal communities far away.
For the Norwegian pelagic industry, this is a situation more sinister than when Canadian exporters appeared in Japan with their mackerel.
