– The government cut marketing levy on salmon and trout to 0.6 per cent from 0.75 per cent from 1 January 2016, said the Fisheries Minister in a press release Tuesday, according to Reuters.
Today’s fee of 0.2 percent for downstream removed. For other fish species maintained the current level of 0.75 percent, it added.
The money goes to the government Seafood Council, which markets fish globally.
– A downward fee salmon and trout to 0.6 percent will with 2014 figures provide an income for Seafood Council of about 430 million. This is a reduction of NOK 70 million compared with current rates , it says.
Norwegian Seafood Federation (FHL) has previously asked the Government to halve the marketing levy, but this mean Fisheries Elisabeth Aspaker is just over.
– The Ministry has received many consultative input, and the vast majority expressed that the proposed reduction in market fee was too high, according to the press release from the Ministry of Industry and Fisheries Ministry.
The world’s breeder, Marine Harvest, otherwise has asked that the levy be abolished.
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