Last year’s shorter-than-usual sockeye salmon season may be well in the past, but the effects are reverberating now. The rush of salmon that flooded fishermen’s boats went into cans more than usual, and at this point that means a significant shortage in inventory of high-quality frozen Alaska sockeye.
“It seems like there’s a frenzy on sockeye in the market right now,” Kevin Bradley, director of Asia operations for Tradex, told IntraFish. “Everybody seems to be calling, looking for product.”
There is very little uncommitted inventory anywhere, a source in the Alaska processing industry told IntraFish.
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