Spain’s consumption of fish and seafood has remained stable in 2015, reaching the 8.2 billion euro. These are some of the data presented by AECOC (multisectoral Association of producers and distributors) in the XVII Congress on food sea.

Among the various product families, that of fish and fresh seafood is the preferred by local consumers, followed by canned, frozen, chilled and smoked. The volume of fresh produce marketed in 2015 was as high as 668,000 tonnes, including cod and hake accounted for 15.2%; sardines and anchovies 10.6%; molluscs 9%; Salmon 8.5%. As for canned fish and seafood, the expenditure of Spanish households reached 1,430 million euro, equivalent to 163,000 tons; purchase of frozen products were destined 1,189 million euro (153,000 tons).

The segment of private label products (MDD) grew by 0.4% in 2015, the trend in the first quarter of this year was, however, decreasing (-0.1%). In this category, canned fish account for the largest share, followed by fish and frozen seafood, smoked and chilled fish.

(ITALPRESS/MNA).

Source: medNews