Market Size of Salmon Industry
| Study Period | 2019 - 2029 |
| Market Size (2024) | USD 33.50 Billion |
| Market Size (2029) | USD 49.39 Billion |
| CAGR (2024 - 2029) | 8.07 % |
| Fastest Growing Market | South America |
| Largest Market | Europe |
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Salmon Market Analysis
The Salmon Market size is estimated at USD 33.5 billion in 2024, and is expected to reach USD 49.39 billion by 2029, growing at a CAGR of 8.07% during the forecast period (2024-2029).
The global salmon sector has felt the impact of COVID-19 all along the supply chain, with production, processing, and logistics. In Norway, prices were very high in Q1, at over NOK 70 per kilo, and producers have benefitted from several strong years of prices, making the sector fairly resilient. In Chile, quarantines, curfews, and other COVID-19 restrictions have led to lower volumes of salmonids reaching processing plants.
Due to biological constraints, seawater temperature requirements, and other natural constraints, farmed salmon is mainly produced in the sea in Norway, Chile, the United Kingdom, North America, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Ireland, New Zealand, and Tasmania. In 2020, more than 2.6 million tons of farmed salmonoids were produced. In comparison, only around 550,000 tons of wild salmonids were caught, with farmed salmon capturing nearly 74% of the overall salmon production in the world. Atlantic salmon is one of the most commonly cultured species of salmon across the world. The overall production of farmed Atlantic salmon was marked at 2.4 million metric ton in 2018, which increased to 2.74 million metric ton by 2020.
Good production of farmed Atlantic salmon had experienced a steep decline in the prices in both Norway and Chile in the first half of 2019. Subsequently, this declining price trend was sharply reversed, and prices soared to near-record heights, primarily attributed to the ever-strengthening demand in traditional and emerging markets such as China.
