Dear reader,
The latest issue of the EUMOFA Monthly Highlights has now been published. The headline messages from this month’s market insights are below.
The issue may be downloaded as a PDF here.
The data underlying the first sales analyses in the Monthly Highlights report are available in the annex here.
With kind regards,
The EUMOFA team
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 FIRST SALES IN EUROPE
In January 2022, compared to January 2021, first-sales value and volume of fisheries and aquaculture products increased in Bulgaria, France, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Sweden. Read more.
Access the most recent weekly (up to week 17 of 2022) and monthly (February 2022) data for first sales in Europe on the EUMOFA website.
FIRST SALES OF COMMON SHRIMP AND RED AND BLUE SHRIMP
From February 2019 to January 2022, the weighted average first-sales price of common shrimp in France was 10,98 EUR/kg, which was 239% higher than in the Netherlands (3,24 EUR/kg) and 55% higher than in Spain (7,08 EUR/kg). Read more.
In the same period, the weighted average first-sales price of blue and red shrimp in Spain (37,61 EUR/kg) was 132% higher than that in Italy (16,24 EUR/kg), and 26% over that in Portugal (29,78 EUR/kg). Read more.
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 EXTRA-EU IMPORTS
In 2022, both price and volume of frozen cuttlefish, with or without shell, from Morocco have exhibited an upward trend. Price ranged from 4,58 to 5,18 EUR/kg and weekly supply from 224 to 804 tonnes. Read more.
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 CONSUMPTION
Over the past three years (February 2019 – January 2022), monthly average Spanish household consumption of salmon was 5.273 tonnes, more than two times higher than average household consumption in Germany and France. Read more.
The most recent weekly (up to week 17 of 2022) consumption data can be accessed on the EUMOFA website.
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COVID-19 IMPACT ON FARMED SPECIES
2020 saw lower exports and imports of caviar. The sharpest decline in trade was seen at the initial impact of the pandemic, during March and April of 2020, partly due to logistical problems and decline in demand. Read more.
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FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE IN BANGLADESH
In 2021, EU imports from Bangladesh amounted to 21.592 tonnes for a value of EUR 190 million. Frozen products accounted for 97% of total imports in value terms. The rest was prepared/preserved products (3%). Shrimp products dominated EU imports (97% of total value). Read more.
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 GLOBAL HIGHLIGHTS
In March 2022, the European Commission presented a range of short-term and medium-term actions to enhance global food security, and to support farmers and consumers in the EU in light of rising food prices and input costs. Read more.
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MA CROECONOMIC CONTEXT
Average prices for marine fuel in April 2022 ranged between 0,95 and 0,99 EUR/litre in ports in France, Italy, Spain, and the UK. Prices increased by an average of 4% compared with the previous month and 128% compared with the same month in 2021. Read more.
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In focus in the next edition of the Monthly Highlights (No. 5/2022):
- First sales of European anchovy and Atlantic herring in France, Lithuania, and Sweden, among other countries.
- Consumption of whiting in France.
- Case studies: “EU Trade in 2021” and “EU-UK trade flows”
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