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EU raids salmon farmers in suspected cartel inquiry

Category: News Release

 Feb 20th, 2019 by Keith Worrall  349

Modified Feb 20th, 2019 at 6:24 PM

Antitrust regulators raided salmon farms in several European Union countries, including some owned by Norway’s Mowi, in a suspected cartel inquiry.

“The Commission has concerns that the inspected companies may have violated EU antitrust rules that prohibit cartels and restrictive business practices,” it said in a statement.

While the Commission did not name the companies involved, Mowi, the world’s biggest producer of farmed Atlantic salmon, told the Reuters newsagency that the EU regulators had raided two of its businesses, in Scotland and the Netherlands.

“We have nothing to hide, we are cooperating with the European Commission,” Mowi spokesman Ola Helge Hjetland said.

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