When the supply of salmon on the market exceeds consumer demand, salmon prices tank — as they are doing this year.
Inflation has pushed U.S. consumers to avoid fish, which they perceive as expensive protein, when they go shopping, according to the head of the state’s seafood marketing agency. Consumer cutbacks, along with large inventories of Alaska salmon left over from last year and a near-record pink salmon harvest in Russia, are making for a very weak market for Alaska fish this summer.
It’s one of the irrefutable laws of economics. Too much supply drives down prices until consumers eat through the stockpile of fish in cold storage and packed in cans, restoring a balance between supply and demand.“I would hope that we have reached the bottom,” Jeremy Woodrow, executive director of the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute, said last week.
When friends and family come visit, don’t send them back with boxes full of free Alaska seafood. Give them a taste of it while they’re here and then pack their luggage with cookbooks and recipes so that they will buy more salmon when they get home, eating into the oversupply.
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