the Market Potential for Marine Finfish Species from British and Irish Aquaculture

Summary

Aquaculture is already playing a major part in supplying seafood into the European market - some 420,000 tonnes per annum out of a fleet landing total of c.6,700,000 tonnes, or 6-7% of the total by weight. If all the member states of the Federation of European Aquaculture Producers are included, the tonnage rises to some 1,000,000 tonnes per annum, with a total value of £1,984 million in 1999 - compared, for example, with a combined total first sale value of fisheries landings of some $452 million in the UK and Ireland.

Author

• British Marine Finfish Association,
• BIM Irish Sea Fisheries Board,
• SFIA

Publication date

01 December 2000