'Peak Salmon' May Be Unlikely, But Threats To Farmed Salmon Loom
NPR'Peak Salmon' May Be Unlikely, But Threats To Farmed Salmon Loom Earlier this month, reporters at Bloomberg and the Financial Times suggested that we might be nearing "peak salmon" — a play on peak oil, in which we theoretically reach maximum production, and the only direction left to go is down. Norway is the world's leading producer of farmed salmon, in part because the country's narrow fjords offer favorable conditions for packing hundreds of thousands of fish together in huge, industrial operations. But, like peak oil, the chance that we've already reached peak salmon is murky at best, says Piotr Wingaard, a broker at the Norwegian seafood brokerage Fish Pool in Oslo. And even though he's confident in production, Wingaard admits there are very real threats to the farmed salmon industry that could drive prices way up if catastrophic scenarios were to play out.
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