It’s better news for seafood in foodservice with an 8.6% increase in seafood servings as the sector started to recover from Covid.
Although, it’s still around 20% lower than pre-Covid levels.
total BG food service:£4.3bn (+21.5%) 130,085t (+8.6%). 1 quick service restaurants (exc fish and chips shop): 38,527t (-13.1%). 2 fish and chips shops: 21,255t (-11.5). full service restaurants: 21,255t (+31.1%). 4 pubs: 19,496t (+64.1%). 5 travel and leisure: 12,427t (+9.7%). 6 workplace and education: 15,664t (+43.3%).
*Tonnage estimate = total servings x 140g portion size
Data notes and sources
Landings
Data Source: Marine Management Organisation.
Reference: MMO monthly landings statistics
https://www.gov.uk/government/
collections/monthly-uk-seafisheries-statistics
Fleet economic performance
Data source: Seafish
Reference: Seafish Fleet Enquiry Tool
https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/
seafish/viz/FleetEnquiryTool/1Overview
Note that 2022 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
https://public.tableau.com/profile/seafish#!/
vizhome/SeafishTradeandTariffTool/
Overview
Note that 2022 trade data is provisional
Processing
Data source: Seafish
Reference: Seafish Processing Enquiry Tool
https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/
seafish/viz/ProcessingEnquiryTool/
2021Overview
Retail data
NielsenIQ ScanTrack data to 52 week ending 31/12/2022; Reference - Monthly Retail Report 52
week ending (w/e) data to 31.12.22; Link to report on MI Portal; Seafish.Org link to retail page and factsheets.
Foodservice data
Circana data to year end December 2022; Reference - 2022 Q4 NPD Data Sheet; Link to report on
MI Portal; Seafish.Org link to foodservice page and factsheets.