Basic laws of supply and demand say there is no shortage of farmed salmon or the price would be sky high.

TRUE.

There is no reason they cannot be produced on land as they are in other places.

Fact not yet in evidence. Seems Norway, Scotland, Iceland, Canada and the U.S. are salt water pen operations and I doubt if Chile has put the money into land operations.


The simple reason they are not is because we are allowing this.

Well, we do allow it but given your statement of how supply and demand keeps prices down what do you think would happen to such operations (in a globally competitive industry) if their Government were to require them to move ashore and incur much higher investment and operating costs? Poof! Gone!!

This is a long term investment to eliminate the competition and have entire market for themselves.

I suspect that the AS producers of the world are more concerned about competition within their own industry than with the wild caught salmon industry. Maybe not so much the other way around. But if you really want to have a level playing field the wild caught salmon industry should be paying the full cost of producing the fish it harvests. Just sayin'.....