Main findings for the year 2015 include:
- Total market supply is down at 14.1 million tonnes
- Imported volume is down to 8.98 million tonnes
- All species total EU catches marginally up 1.4 per cent at 5.156 million tonnes
- Share of imports slightly up at 63.5 per cent
- Net consumption marginally up 0.2kg/capita to 24.1kg
- EU catches for whitefish species have increased 4.6 per cent and quota utilisation has improved significantly to 80.6 per cent.
- Fish Exports down sharply by 16.5 per cent to 1.913 million tonnes
- Wild capture whitefish import dependency slightly reduced to 88 per cent
- Salmon is the No 1 species by live weight but Tuna and Cod all above 1 million tonnes of resource use – significant in global terms
- Trend for primary processing in Europe appears to be consolidating
- Internal supply is showing signs of recovery but imports remain the backbone of the industry
