A new report on wholesale markets for Alaska seafood found that the industry's leading sector -- pollock -- has shown steadily declining values in the face of price pressure on fillets in particular.
The report, produced by McDowell Group, among others, shows that while the overall value of Alaska pollock fillets ebbed and flowed from 2009 to 2014, the value per metric ton has dropped steadily.
Data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association's Alaska Fisheries Science Center (AFSC) shows value per metric ton of pollock fillet blocks peaked in 2009 at $3,917 (€3,505) and has decreased slowly but surely, landing at $3,027 (€2,708) in 2014.
