Seafish Annual Plan 2026-27
Seafish is sharpening its focus to deliver greater impact for the UK seafood industry, says its new Chief Executive Colin Faulkner.
Speaking five months into his new post to launch Seafish’s Annual Plan for 2026–2027, Colin described how the organisation has refocused its activities into three areas:
- A safe and skilled workforce
- Smoother and expanding seafood trade
- A resilient supply chain.
Our annual plan comes at an important point for Seafish and at a time of significant change for seafood sectors across the UK. Our Plan set outs how we’re focusing our activities to deliver greater impact, with our work now centred around three strategic outcomes - a safe and skilled workforce; smoother and expanding seafood trade; and a resilient supply chain. These are the areas where we believe we can make the most difference.
We will help seafood businesses in all parts of the UK navigate current challenges and be ready for the future through providing trusted insight, practical support and stronger partnership. We will do this with humility, engaging openly, listening carefully and working in partnership with industry, governments and others to shape our priorities and how we deliver them - working together to support a resilient future for UK seafood.
Support guided by strategic outcomes
The three strategic outcomes are designed to support the success of the UK seafood sectors at home and around the world.
A safe and skilled workforce: Seafish will support a safer, more skilled and future-ready seafood workforce by improving safety, strengthening training and helping businesses build the skills needed in a modern seafood industry.
Smoother and expanding seafood trade: Seafish will help UK seafood businesses navigate trade complexity, reduce barriers and access markets more smoothly, while supporting growth opportunities in the UK and internationally.
Resilient supply chain: Seafish will assist the seafood industry’ responses to economic, environmental and market pressures by strengthening resilience, improving transparency and supporting long-term confidence across the supply chain
Other areas being strengthened
Seafish is also strengthening its activities in data and insight and innovation, stakeholder engagement and organisational services, which underpin successful delivery across all three outcomes.
Find out more and how to contact
The full Seafish Annual Plan can be found online at: Seafish Annual Plan 26/27: Delivering Impact Together
Seafish welcomes any feedback from our industry stakeholders about the activities set out in the Plan and they support required by the seafood sectors – they can email seafish@seafish.co.uk