French pollack and smoked salmon: Prices under the microscope

Published 2021년 11월 18일

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FranceAgriMer's price and margin observatory study reveals insights into the price formation of seafood products in France, covering various stages from production to distribution and export. The report highlights a decline in seafood production and auction prices in 2020 due to reduced fishing activities and restaurant closures, yet offset by lower diesel prices. Import prices have been on a downward trend for three years. The examples of saithe and smoked salmon detail changes in retail prices, margins, and the increasing importance of imports. Both examples show a decrease in the supermarket margin to avoid passing on upstream price increases, indicating a shift in the value chain for these products.

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Seafood products are among those whose price formation FranceAgriMer has analyzed. The study sheds light on the value chain. FranceAgriMer's latest price and margin observatory dating from June 2021 dissects over 455 pages the price formation of different food products. Among them: seafood and their very specific sectors (auctions, wholesalers and / or industrialists, then distribution in supermarkets, restaurants, fishmongers or exports, etc.). According to the report, France produced 715,000 tonnes of seafood in 2019 (527,000 t by fishing, 188 t by aquaculture), and imported nearly 2 million. In the end, if we remove exports, apparent consumption amounts to 2.2 million tonnes in live weight equivalent. In 2020, due to the health crisis, catches and auction prices fell by 12% and 2% respectively, the fault of a drop in fishing activity and a drop in demand, particularly with the closure of restaurants and canteens. But what saves the fishermen is the dramatic drop in the price of ...

Source: Pdm-seafoodmag