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Norway's seafood exports grow by 29 pct in Feb.

Xinhua, March 3, 2016 Adjust font size:

Norway exported seafood worth 6.8 billion Norwegian kroner (787.4 million U.S. dollars) in February, up 29 percent compared with the same month last year, the Norwegian Seafood Council said on Thursday.

"A total growth of 29 percent bears witness to an industry that is prospering. Nearly all sectors have solid development in February," Geir Havard Hanssen, director of communications at the Norwegian Seafood Council, was quoted as saying in a statement.

"Growth in demand, high prices and a favorable foreign currency situation deserve a good deal of the credit for several records being beaten in February," he said.

The country exported salmon worth 4.2 billion kroner (485.9 million U.S. dollars) in February, representing an increase of 26 percent compared with the same last year. France, Poland and Denmark were the largest recipients of salmon from Norway.

The average price for fresh whole salmon increased from 42.17 kroner per kg to 55.05 kroner per kg. Measured by volume, salmon exports declined 472 tons to nearly 71,800 tons in February this year.

Trout exports increased in February by 100 percent to an export value of 288 million kroner (33.3 million U.S. dollars). The volume increased by 3,000 tons to 6,100 tons. Poland, Belarus and Japan were our largest markets for trout in February.

Moreover, exports of herring, mackerel, salted fish, fresh cod and shellfish have solid development in February, while exports of clipfish declined by 20 percent in February, the council said.

So far this year, seafood worth 13.6 billion kroner (1.6 billion U.S. dollars) has been exported, representing an increase of 24 percent compared with the same period last year, according to the council's statement. Enditem