Norwegian salmon back in Japan

The change in currency value again made buying Norwegian salmon profitable once, said Yuichiro Amano of AIC, a subsidiary of AEON, Japan’s second-biggest supermarket chain.

AIC is engaged in purchasing of seafood, garments, household articles and appliances and red meat. The company runs a sizeable cattle station in Australia.

“Norwegian salmon is best, but in 2003 it became too expensive for us. The Norwegian fish is fatter and has less of a smell than the Chilean,” Amano said.

AIC purchased Chilean fish from other Japanese importers, but now deliveries from Chile are on the verge of stopping altogether due to the problems with infectious salmon anemia (ISA).

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