The development of large scale aquaculture production: A comparison of the supply chains for chicken and salmon
By Frank Asche, Andreea L. Cojocaru, Bjørn Roth. Aquaculture, 2016
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Abstract The supply chain for salmon is, in many respects, the world's most efficient seafood supply chain. Adopting new technologies and expanding the scale of production have improved competitiveness leading to increased production and industry growth. The transfer of knowledge and processes from other food producing industries has facilitated growth in salmon aquaculture in particular, and in aquaculture in general. As such, the maturity of the salmon industry relative to other food producing industries can provide indications of further growth potential. We argue that the salmon industry still has much to learn from similar processes in other food-growing industries. Notably, the production and processing of poultry has experienced significant increases since the 1940s, becoming the fastest growing and most rapidly changing highly-intensive livestock farming segment, with often fully-automated processing environments. Although farmed salmon has a production history closely following that of poultry, it remains semi-automated with less control over production processes and a more limited product specter than poultry. While this gives important avenues of growth for salmon, it holds even more potential for other aquaculture species with even less control over the production processes and supply chain. Statement of relevance Innovations leading to productivity growth and improved competitiveness throughout the supply chain have been key to the development of successful aquaculture industries. To a large extent, innovations have built on knowledge from the agrosciences. In this paper we compare the development of salmon aquaculture, one of the most sophisticated aquaculture industries with chicken, one of the most sophisticated terrestrial animal production industries. This sheds new light on the development of salmon aquaculture and it show that there is s large knowledge potential still to be tapped form chicken production, giving substantial promise of further development.
Subfields: Aquatic Science, Global and Planetary Change, Immunology
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- U.S. seafood consumption (2019, background): “This is not surprising given that wealthy countries in general import higher-valued fish, while poorer countries import lower-valued fish (Asche et al., 2015), independent of whether this is because of the species or if it is because of re-exporting (Asche et al., 2016).”
- Aquaculture subsidies in the European Union: Evolution, impact and future potential for growth (2019, background): “If the demand for the new technology increased, their prices would decrease [2,38] and make it more profitable to introduce the new technology, and this also carries into the supply chain [39].”
- Production cost and competitiveness in major salmon farming countries 2003–2018 (2020, background): “4 Bjørndal and Aarland (1999) provided a comparison of production cost in Norway and Chile, without being able to say anything about the development over time.”