When Grant Rosewarne walked into his New Zealand office on Monday morning and saw an order for salmon from a distributor in Dubai, he thought it was a typo.
"They typically order five cartons," said Rosewarne, CEO of New Zealand King Salmon, a fish farm. "On Monday they ordered 500 cartons."
Airborne ash may have restricted salmon supplies from Norway and other northern European nations, but for Rosewarne and his 420 employees, the distant Iceland volcano has brought an unprecedented boom in business, as customers around the globe try to keep salmon on restaurant menus and store shelves.
Photo Caption: Nervous wedding planners in the U.S. who can't get Cymbidium Orchids from Dutch suppliers due to volcano-related delays are turning to growers in New Zealand.
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