Producers face EU grilling over cartel allegations

Some of Norway’s biggest salmon producers are expected to appear in a closed-doors hearing this week in front of the European Commission’s Competition directorate, to face allegations of price-fixing.

Reuters has reported that Grieg Seafood, SalMar and others are due to appear in Brussels this week. The companies concerned have, so far, firmly denied any suggestion that the industry acted improperly.

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Woman convicted of salmon smuggling ‘seriously ill’ in Chinese jail

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A woman who had business links with salmon producer SalMar is reported to be seriously ill with paralysis and other major problems in a Chinese jail, where she is serving a sentence for smuggling seafood.

Her family fear that she could die in prison unless she receives proper treatment.

In 2022 Yimin Dong, a former Chinese national who is now a Norwegian citizen, was sentenced to 14 years, later reduced to 13 years, after being convicted of smuggling salmon into China through Vietnam, at a time when China had barred fish imports from Norway.

SalMar has always insisted she was acting privately and was never directly employed by the company.

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ISA at SalMar site

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Infectious Salmon Anaemia is suspected at a SalMar location in Norway in what appears to be a growing number of cases across the country this year.

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Far out, man

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Iceland has joined the list of countries looking at whether fish farming could expand into more challenging ocean locations, as Vince McDonagh reports.

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