What the heck happened?

[n2mark]

I went to the store to buy fresh salmon, $13.00 a pound? The highest I paid was $6.00 a pound before. What is happening? My gosh, salmon doubled in price within a shortime. I couldn't believe it, thankfully I'm only buying for one. I did notice other seafoods were a bit more expensive today. I was shocked, but guess if something is healthy for you, you pay the price. I'm still stunned to see the prices in the seafood area at our supermarket.

Am I the only person who is surprised?

[Parche]

1. fishy prices

Kind of makes your head hurt and gives you a bad haddock.

[nottabubba]

6. salmon

Here in NorCal when the salmon season opened, DNR was expecting about 225,000 salmon to run, only about 25,000 ran, so they shut down the season then.

They tried re-opening and the same sort of thing happened.

About 3 years ago there was huge salmon kill off on the Klamath when the Feds opened the dam upriver and thousands and thousands of salmon died. 30 and 40 lb salmon were dead on the banks of the Klamath.

Ergo, no fish, the price goes up.

[Shoeempress]

2. Don't be so shellfish, it makes you sound crabby.

[Internut]

14. Was probably on sale, mon. n/t

[Catherine Vincent]

22. LOL. I'll have to remember that one.

:-)

[Horse with no Name]

3. I went to Kroger the other day to buy some zucchini

and it was $3/pound.
I have never seen it that high.

[uppityperson]

4. Everything is costing more. Guess it costs more to transport it.

Fresh fish prices go up and down. Wait a little and it'll drop again. But everything has taken a dramatic hike in cost recently, I think due to transportation costs.

General salmon informations: Buy "frozen at sea" for the best quality. "Fresh" in the store just means "never frozen", it could be several days old while frozen is actually better quality.

[Toots]

10. Yes you R 100% correct. Frozen at Sea means bacteria halted immediately

The quicker the product can be chilled the quicker bacteria is halted. Frozen at Sea means it is chilled within hours of hitting the deck. Every hour a fish is left on deck at sixty degrees it loses eighteen hours of shelf life.

[Deja Q]

19. Despite oil prices gone down to $48/barrel, $1.89 gas?

Profiteering.

For the moment.

That'll change again. For the worse. Don't expect prices to go back down because of the lower gas prices. They think it's fair to reap in the extra profit. It's called "bonuses".

[BringEmOn]

5. Raised the price just for the halibut

[Toots]

7. What kind of salmon and where did it come from?

There are many species of salmon and they all are different prices. Pink salmon I am sure you can still find for less than three dollars a pound while wild Alaskan King salmon if Fresh would go far well over thirteen dollars a pound. I'm sure you can find farmed Alantic salmon for low prices but remember you get what you pay for.

[n2mark]

13. It is shinook salmon,

but never ever ever paid $13.00 a pound. Actually this is the time of year where we could buy salmon quite cheap. I went shopping at a regular supermarket, just wonder the price would be at AJ's or another gourmet store. Well, guess these gourmet stores are going to go out of business, prices are too high.

[Toots]

17. I bet it is the first Fresh King Salmon of the Season from SE Alaska

SE Alaska opened two major rivers for the first time in thirty years for King salmon fishing. The Stikine River near Wrangell, Alaska and the Taku near Juneau were opened May 1 for the first time in thirty years. Alaska has been seeing huge record returns of it's salmon stocks. Alaska has ten times the commercial fishing effort as Washington, Oregon, and California but does not have a single dam on any of it's rivers which is not so for Washington and Oregon. The Columbia river alone has over thirty dams on it and it's tributaries. The little smolt/fry get caught up in the turbines as they return towards the sea. Power and irrigation is more important than salmon I guess in Washington and Oregon anyway. Anyway I would bet you got some of the first salmon to hit the fresh market hence the high price. I bet it was good though. drool..slobber..drool.

[kanrok]

8. Holy Mackeral!

I was flounder-ing around for an answer and I cod not come up with a witty response. Best bet is to short the salmon market. That'll be $50. Thanks.

[LiviaOlivia]

9. No Chinook Salmon in the lower Columbia River.

May 18, 2005
Big Changes Planned for Chinook Salmon Fishing
By Dan Barth
Boise, Idaho


Pacific Northwest Fisheries managers have had serious concerns about this spring's Chinook salmon run for the past month. The bottom line was that the salmon were not showing up in the numbers that were expected.

The Lower Columbia River was shut down to recreational and commercial fishing last month, then the Lower Snake River was shut down too.

~snip~

http://www.kbcitv.com/x5154.xml?ParentPageID=x5157&ContentID=x65529&Layout=KBCI.xsl&AdGroupID=x5154

on edit: this crisis made market prices soar. IMHO

[spindoctor]

15. nods

One of the things I was really looking forward to when I moved up here was some good slamon fishing.

Bugger!

[orwell]

11. Don't Worry...

Inflation less food and energy is very low according to US Govt statistics.

So your answer is to not eat, drive, cook, heat or cool your home.

Stop being so crabby...

[MGKrebs]

12. Well on a grand SCALE it's not that bad.

[dogday]

16. I like Mr. Lippet fish-the lips are the best part....

[Misskittycat]

18. The butter you put on the salmon is now over $4.00. n/t

[Gabi Hayes]

20. I paid eight bucks a pound for Norwegian wild salmon

at Whole Foods today

they had other stuff up to about fifteen

don't eat that farm raised crap....literally crap, loaded with poison

[Gabi Hayes]

21. Bush....wrong again, as always:

"I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully."
—Saginaw, Mich., Sept.
29, 2000-

[Cleita]

23. I think salmon are becoming an endangered species.

The dams don't help their spawning habits either.