This between the fishing seasons period with nothing left to sell is certainly very, very quiet – all we can do these days is sweep up in the empty warehouses and speculate on the future fishing and the direction of prices.
It has been reported that there is a little new interest in the next fishmeal production but that buyers are bidding well below current price levels with producers not all that willing to book any low ball buyer's bids.
Sorry that there is not much to report on fishmeal from Peru but that will change soon once the government gets some exploratory fishing underway and we really have a good reason to start rumors.
Nutreco announced this week that they have developed a new fishmeal-free salmon feed. This has been developed due to the ever increasing demand for aquafeed products but the finite amount of available fishmeal. They say the new fish feed will help to avoid the spikes in fishmeal prices as seem to occur most every year. This new salmon feed formulation has been developed by the Skretting Aquaculture division on Nutreco.