The farmed salmon industry is concentrated, highly developed, and major producers are mostly public companies.  The shrimp industry is fragmented, made up of many smaller producers, and has far more global production sites.

Yet Farmed Salmon prices are far more volatile than shrimp.  This year, for the third time since 2010, fresh salmon fillet prices have soared by more than 60% in a few short months.  In 2016, prices rose over 60% from last November until July...

Ongoing declines in Japanese seafood consumption coupled with shifts in foreign exchange rates contributed to declines in Japan’s seafood import volumes and values in June.

According to a report from Japan’s Finance Ministry, seafood imports in June were down 12.4 percent by volume at 159,868 ton. The value of those imports was down 16.5 percent to Y110,767.