{"id":556,"date":"2019-02-20T18:24:02","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T00:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/?p=556"},"modified":"2019-02-20T18:24:02","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T00:24:02","slug":"eu-raids-salmon-farmers-in-suspected-cartel-inquiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/eu-raids-salmon-farmers-in-suspected-cartel-inquiry\/","title":{"rendered":"EU raids salmon farmers in suspected cartel inquiry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Antitrust regulators raided salmon farms in several European Union countries, including some owned by Norway&#8217;s Mowi, in a suspected cartel inquiry.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Commission has concerns that the inspected companies may have violated EU antitrust rules that prohibit cartels and restrictive business practices,&#8221; it said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>While the Commission did not name the companies involved, Mowi, the world&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have nothing to hide, we are cooperating with the European Commission,&#8221; Mowi spokesman Ola Helge Hjetland said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/business\/2019\/0220\/1031647-eu-raids-salmon-farmers-in-suspected-cartel-inquiry\/\"><strong>EU raids salmon farmers in suspected cartel inquiry\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/business\/2019\/0220\/1031647-eu-raids-salmon-farmers-in-suspected-cartel-inquiry\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-557 img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/ofmn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/2019\/02\/000b9390-800-600x338.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ofmn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/2019\/02\/000b9390-800-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ofmn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/2019\/02\/000b9390-800-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ofmn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/2019\/02\/000b9390-800-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ofmn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/2019\/02\/000b9390-800.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antitrust regulators raided salmon farms in several European Union countries, including some owned by Norway&#8217;s Mowi, in a suspected cartel inquiry. &#8220;The Commission has concerns that the inspected companies may have violated EU antitrust rules that prohibit cartels and restrictive business practices,&#8221; it said in a statement. While the Commission did not name the companies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11658,"featured_media":557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-release","post_format-post-format-link"],"acf":[],"youtube_video":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11658"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":558,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions\/558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}