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Norway salmon exports — destinations and trade flow

Where Norway's Atlantic salmon ships. Monthly volumes by partner country, market concentration, and headline movers — refreshed each time customs statistics publish.

Latest month · June 2026

Latest available customs month (SSB table 14720). Per-country trade publishes in arrears — around the middle of the following month — so the latest available month trails the weekly export price by several weeks. Month-over-month compares with May 2026.

Norway shipped Atlantic salmon to 84 partner countries in June 2026. The three largest buyers were Poland, China, Netherlands, together accounting for 36.0% of the month's volume.

Market concentration (HHI, annual): 602.9 in 2025 — unconcentrated. Top destination Poland held 14.9% of annual volume across 110 partners.

The Herfindahl–Hirschman Index sums the squared market shares of every destination (scale 0–10,000): higher means exports lean on fewer markets, lower means demand is spread broadly. Standard DOJ/FTC bands — below 1,500 unconcentrated, 1,500–2,500 moderate, above 2,500 highly concentrated.

Top 10 destinations · June 2026

RankCountryVolume (t)$/kgShareMoM
1Poland25,979$7.1920.2%+43.4%
2China10,868$8.098.4%+12.2%
3Netherlands9,511$7.607.4%+19.9%
4France8,323$8.286.5%+1.3%
5Spain8,245$8.286.4%-1.3%
6Italy6,234$7.434.8%+2.7%
7United States of America5,403$13.764.2%+3.3%
8Denmark5,307$7.424.1%+19.4%
9United Kingdom5,230$8.944.1%+3.9%
10Germany4,644$8.873.6%+31.7%

$/kg is the implied unit value (USD value ÷ volume) per destination — a customs-valuation average across the salmon commodity group, not the weekly fresh/chilled benchmark. Download the full month: CSV · JSON.

All destinations · June 2026

Poland · China · Netherlands · France · Spain · Italy · United States of America · Denmark · United Kingdom · Germany · Lithuania · Sweden · South Korea · Thailand · Finland · Ukraine · Viet Nam · Taiwan · Japan · Belgium · Hong Kong · Israel · Türkiye · Portugal · Latvia · Czechia · United Arab Emirates · Canada · Saudi Arabia · Philippines · Estonia · Georgia · Greece · Egypt · Ireland · Singapore · Kazakhstan · Malaysia · Switzerland · South Africa · Morocco · Romania · Russia · Bulgaria · Qatar · New Zealand · Uzbekistan · Austria · Indonesia · Jordan · Serbia · Azerbaijan · Moldova · Kuwait · Lebanon · Mexico · Australia · Bahrain · India · Kenya · Sri Lanka · Dominica · Oman · Hungary · Venezuela · Cambodia · Cyprus · Mauritius · Costa Rica · Luxembourg · Armenia · Slovakia · Guam · Pakistan · Maldives · Nigeria · Zimbabwe · Croatia · Ghana · Macao · Nepal · Rwanda · Senegal · Tanzania

Notable movers

  • 5-year breakout — China: +249.5% · 10,868 t · $87.9M · vs 2021 (5y) · last full year 2025
  • Month-over-month gainer — Israel: +44.0% · 1,100 t · $13.6M · vs May 2026 (MoM) · all partners
  • Month-over-month decliner — Spain: -1.3% · 8,245 t · $68.3M · vs May 2026 (MoM) · all partners

Biggest movers · June 2026

CountryVolume (t)MoM
Israel1,100+44.0%
Poland25,979+43.4%
Finland2,191+42.5%
Türkiye1,084+42.3%
Lithuania4,006+33.3%

The five largest month-over-month volume swings among partners above 1,000 t in June 2026, ranked by absolute % change vs May 2026.

About this trade data

Volumes reflect the first customs destination, not the final consumer market. Several top partners are re-export hubs rather than terminal buyers: Polish processors fillet and smoke whole Norwegian salmon and ship it onward, mostly to Germany; the Netherlands and Lithuania play similar EU logistics roles; Denmark to a lesser degree. Shipped-to figures for those countries therefore overstate local demand and undercount the true downstream markets. On the live dashboard these hubs carry a re-export marker; the reattribution is a directional estimate drawn from trade-press and Eurostat re-export accounting, not a primary customs feed.

Monthly destination figures come from SSB’s salmon commodity group (table 14720), spanning fresh, frozen, and fillet salmon (HS 0302 / 0303 / 0304). That is a broader basket than the weekly farmed-salmon price series (table 03024), so monthly destination tonnage and the weekly headline price are not directly comparable.

Source: SSB (Statistics Norway) · Norges Bank