Thailand’s fish canneries, long criticised for the widespread use of antibiotics in fish farms, are moving into the wild salmon market.
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Seemingly without irony, canneries are blaming international concerns over contamination with disease and drugs in farmed salmon and are importing wild salmon from British Columbia in Canada and south-east Alaska in the United States.
The wild salmon, which the canneries believe is more attractive than farmed salmon from Norway, Chile and Scotland, will be re-exported, said one of Thailand’s leading cannery suppliers, Food Industry Consultants Ltd and Food Partners Co. Market observers, however, cite another motive – a dramatic drop in the price of canned tuna, the mainstay of the industry in Thailand, to less than US$1 a can.
By Mark Rowe, just-food.com correspondent
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