Governor asks government agency to help protect the canned pink salmon market from an oversupply by making another bulk buy, this time at $37m

With 39m sockeye harvested as of Thursday morning, the sockeye harvest exceeds last year's 29.5m harvest by nearly 10m fish, or 32%

'Persistent abundance' of pinks seems to be outcompeting sockeye, which are in decline in British Columbia, yet the Fraser River run is unaffected due to timing

Changes include ability to set the total allowable catch for both sockeye and pink, in bid to address concerns during low sockeye abundance and large pink salmon returns

By Tom Seaman

CEO Philippe Barbe says company is off for an even better 2014, as sources say acquisition talks between Japanese trading giant and French salmon supplier could run into next year 

Catches had reached over 34,000t by July 8, a 10,000t increase from 2012, the last comparable catch year

By Jeanine Stewart

It is certainly too early to make any conclusions about pink’s surprise harvest influx, but as the sockeye harvest hits 29.1m fish as of Wednesday, it is well on its way to meet or exceed the forecast of 33.6m fish while chum harvest starts weak

Salmon run is still definitely ahead of schedule in terms of both escapement and harvest

By Tom Seaman

Buyers hope for price relief in 2014 with catches forecast to be strong, as volumes of canned sockeye sold in the UK have more than halved in the last ten years

Packers in China predict a poor year ahead for Russian pink salmon, with supplies tight and plants expecting raw material price to rise