Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 4 November 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs

Aquaculture Innovation and Development: Discussion

2:00 am

Ms Caroline Bocquel:

Yes. There are effectively two different products really. The organic salmon that we grow here achieves a much higher price. We still sell a lot of that onto the Irish market, for which there is a certain level of demand. The rest of the demand is met with lower priced conventional salmon, which we do not grow here. As Ms McManus stated, as a country we chose in the 1990s to move to a fully organic model. As a result, conventional salmon is imported from other countries.