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Farmed Seafood in Multiple Retail (2024 Update)

In the year to March 2024, farmed seafood maintained its share of the UK top five bestselling species which in turn makes up the majority of UK seafood sales; accounting for an estimated 60% by value, and 41% by volume; worth £1.72bn with 88,033 tonnes.

2020 Seafish UK Seafood Industry Value Chain Provisional Data

Summary of the UK seafood industry performance in 2020 (provisional data).

Seafood social profile Argentina January2020

This profile is part of a series on the social risks associated with countries that are important to the UK seafood industry. It covers risks related to the production and processing of wild caught and farmed seafood.

Seafood social profile South Korea January2020

This profile is part of a series on the social risks associated with countries that are important to the UK seafood industry. It covers risks related to the production and processing of wild caught and farmed seafood.

UK Seafood Trade Report: April to June 2023

This report takes a high-level view of the whole of the UK seafood supply chain to explore factors impacting UK seafood markets, seafood business operations and consumer behaviour during April to April 2023.

Guidance sheet – New Labelling Rules for food sold loose and food service

From 12 December 2014 the EU Food Information to Consumers Regulation will require allergen information to be given with food sold loose or pre-packed on the premises. This will include fish mongers and catering establishments. There is a legal requirement to inform the consumer as to the presence of 14 allergens: Milk Eggs Fish Crustaceans (e.g. crab, lobster, crayfish, shrimp, prawn) Molluscs (e.g. mussels, oysters, squid) Peanuts Tree nuts (almonds, hazelnuts, walnuts, cashews, pecans, Brazils, pistachios) Sesame seeds Cereals containing gluten (i.e. wheat (such as spelt and Khorasan wheat), rye, barley, oats, or their hybridised strains) Soybeans Celery and celeriac Mustard Lupin Sulphites at concentration of ten parts per million and above

Indonesia Seafood Ethics Profile

Seafish commissioned a study to assess the ethical issues impacting on seafood species landed into, and imported to the UK from a wide range of countries. This Indonesia profile looks at the main seafood products; seafood exports to UK; employment in seafood; human trafficking and forced labour indicators and rankings and research reports; ratification of international human rights and labour instruments; fisheries policy and management structure/administration; control of IUU fishing and related labour abuse; measures to protect migrant fishers; partnerships and improvement projects; and an overall assessment or criteria for overall risk assessment for Indonesia.

Seafish Brussels Seafood Regulation Update 14/02/2018 – 21/02/2018

FVO audit report on Vietnam unveils lack of controls on brine frozen tuna destined for canning industry; India: Quality control lab for seafood opened in BBSR; Update on EU/US agreement on live bivalve molluscs; Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/233 of 15 February 2018 on the approval of plans submitted by third countries in accordance with Article 29 of Council Directive 96/23/EC; Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed. Section Import Controls; Codex Committee on contaminants in food

South Korea Seafood Ethics Profile

Seafish commissioned a study to assess the ethical issues impacting on seafood species landed into, and imported to the UK from a wide range of countries. This South Korea profile looks at the main seafood products; seafood exports to UK; employment in seafood; human trafficking and forced labour indicators and rankings and research reports; ratification of international human rights and labour instruments; fisheries policy and management structure/administration; control of IUU fishing and related labour abuse; measures to protect migrant fishers; partnerships and improvement projects; and an overall assessment or criteria for overall risk assessment for South Korea.

Lobster Hatcheries Leaflet

Use of shellfish by-products bait

Shell waste is a major problem with UK production of waste from calcareous shellfish (excluding Nephrops and shrimp) of around 75,000t/yr of which potentially 20,000t is flesh. Although there are many theoretical options for the use of waste shell few are commercially viable, often due costs of separation and cleaning. Previous work has shown it is possible to separate the flesh from the shell and supply the ‘free of flesh shell’ for use in aggregates; however this leaves the problem of what to do with the fleshy material. The current “Proof of Concept” project has focused on the use of flesh derived from shellfish waste in commercial bait. A comprehensive set of trials with bait sticks prepared from scallop (King & Queen), whelk and crab waste demonstrated that the fleshy waste from shell is a suitable material for baits. An overview of the project is provided in this factsheet.

EU Alert Monitoring – 8 January 2016

Brussels update of seafood legislation developments, including TTIP; DG MARE update for 2016; 8th Annual Commission Report on the Implementation of the European Fisheries Fund (2014); European eco-label for fishery and aquaculture products; Food chain safety; Globalisation; Intention of the Commission to prolong the possibility to use non-organic juveniles and seed from non-organic bivalve shellfish hatcheries; Handling Choke Species in View of the EU Landing Obligation.

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