• Last year, the price paid to fishermen for salmon was around twenty percent higher than in the previous year. The price of farmed rainbow trout increased by more than a third.
  • The producer price of Baltic herring used for industrial purposes rose slightly from the previous year, but that of herring sold for human consumption decreased slightly. The total price of herring was 0.19 euros per kilo.  The price of Baltic herring sold for human consumption was 0.26 euros per kilo.
  • The producer price of sprat is usually about equal to that of Baltic herring used for industrial purposes. The price of both fish was 0.18 euros per kilo.
  • For the first time ever, producers were paid more than 10 euros per kilo for farmed whitefish. Fishermen got almost 50 per cent less for large wild whitefish, EUR 5.5 per kilo on average.
  • Fishermen got higher producer price than in the previous year for sea bream and perch. Producer prices of vendace, pikeperch, pike and burbot remained at around the previous year's level.