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Fish consumption 2016

Published 1.11.2017
  • In 2016, the consumption of domestic fish was four kilos per person, and the consumption of imported fish, slightly more than nine kilos. The consumption of domestic fish is calculated in fillet weight and that of imported fish, mainly in product weight.
  • Of domestic fish species, consumers favoured farmed rainbow trout most (1.2 kilos), and of imported fish species, the consumption of farmed salmon was highest (3.5 kilos).
  • Of domestic wild fish species, consumers used most vendace (0.55 kilos). The next were pike (0.44 kilos), pearch (0.39 kilos), pikepearch (0.38 kilos), european whitefish (0.33 kilos) and baltic herring (0.31 kilos).
  • After farmed salmon, the most used imported products were tuna products, farmed rainbow trout, frozen saithe, shrimps and shrimp products.
  • For domestic wild fish species the numbers are preliminary estimates.
Fish consumption

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