Seafood sold through foodservice
It’s better news for seafood in foodservice with an 6.4% increase in seafood servings.
Growth is driven by an uplift in seafood servings in pubs, and workplace and education centres.
total BG food service:£5.9bn (+39%) 138,368t (+6%). 1 Quick Service Restaurant (excl. Fish and Chips Shops) 41,425 tonnes** (+8%) Fish and Chips Shops: 18,060 tonnes** (-15%) Full-Service Restaurants: 21,218 tonnes** (-4%) Pubs: 24,940 tonnes** (28%) Travel and Leisure: 13,850 tonnes** (+12%) Workplace and Education: 18,395 tonnes** (+17%)
*Based on a low sample, please use cautiously, directional use.
**Tonnage
estimate = total servings x 140g portion size / 1000
Data notes and sources
Landings
Data Source: Marine Management Organisation.
Reference: MMO monthly landings statistics
Click here to view the dataFleet economic performance
Data source: Seafish
Reference: Seafish Fleet Enquiry Tool
Click here to view the dataNote that 2024 performance and landings data is provisional
Aquaculture production
Data Source: Centre for Environment Fisheries and Aquaculture (CEFAS)
Reference: Data supplied directly to Seafish
Trade (Imports and Exports)
Data Source: HMRC monthly data via Business Trade Statistics (BTS), processed by Seafish.
Reference: Seafish Trade and Tariff Tool
Click here to view the dataNote that 2024 trade data is provisional
Processing
Retail data
NielsenIQ ScanTrack data to 52 week ending 30/12/2024; Reference - Monthly Retail Report 52
week ending (w/e) data to 30.12.24; Click here to view the report; Click here to view the factsheets.
Foodservice data
Circana data to year end December 2024; Reference - 2024 Q4 NPD Data Sheet; Click here to view the report; Click here to view the factsheets.