Mink industry in Denmark

[10] Fur trade has been declared as one of the twenty nine "special competence clusters in Danish economic life" by the Ministry of Commerce in Denmark.

[11] In November 2020, a mutated strain of COVID-19 was found in the animals, resulting in the government ordering the culling of seventeen million mink because of a fear that they could be the catalyst for restarting the international pandemic.

At least twelve people have been infected by the mink farm strain though hundreds of cases could be linked to it.

[17] Climatic conditions in Denmark, where the winter is mild and the summer is cool, are considered ideal for husbanding animals with fur cover.

[20] Using information technology, management, control, breeding and analysis could monitor genetic progress of the mink herd.

Concerted efforts of Kopenhagen Fur and Danish Animal Welfare Society (Dyrenes Beskyttelse), have optimized the environmental conditions for mink farming by developing rules, which received approval by the Ministry of Justice in 2007.

[21] Major export markets for Danish mink are China, Hong Kong, Japan, and Korea.