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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What's new in EUMOFA
- “Organic aquaculture in the EU” study has recently been released and the video recording of the most recent EUMOFA Talk is also available;
- EUMOFA News Digest n.5/2022 is available on the website;
- Latest monthly report on “online shop retail prices” tool for weeks 17-20 2022 has been published.
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 FIRST SALES IN EUROPE
In February 2022, compared to February 2021, first-sales value and volume of fisheries and aquaculture products increased in Bulgaria, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Norway, and the United Kingdom. Read more.
Access the most recent weekly (up to week 22 of 2022) and monthly (April 2022) data for first sales in Europe on the EUMOFA website.
FIRST SALES OF ATLANTIC HERRING AND EUROPEAN ANCHOVY
Over the past 36 months (March 2019–February 2022), the weighted average first-sales price of Atlantic herring in the Netherlands was 0,87 EUR/kg, 223% higher than in Lithuania (0,27 EUR/kg), and 1484% greater than that of Sweden (0,05 EUR/kg). Read more.
In the same period, the weighted average first-sales price of European anchovy in Italy was 2,58 EUR/kg, 133% higher than that of France (1,11 EUR/kg), and 57% greater than that of Spain (1,64 EUR/kg). Read more.
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 EXTRA-EU IMPORTS
Since the beginning of 2022, the price of frozen Atlantic mackerel from Norway has shown an upward trend. Concurrently, volume showed the opposite trend. Prices ranged from 1,73 to 2,44 EUR/kg, and supply from 40 kg to 363 tonnes. Read more.
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 CONSUMPTION
Over the past three years (March 2019 – February 2022), the monthly average French household consumption of whiting was 340 tonnes. French consumers spent on average 16,86 EUR for a kilogram of whiting. Read more.
The most recent weekly (up to week 21 of 2022) consumption data can be accessed on the EUMOFA website.
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EU TRADE IN 2021
The EU trade balance in fisheries and aquaculture products continues to be negative, confirming the EU's dependence on imports. In 2021, the fisheries and aquaculture trade deficit reached EUR -19,69 billion, the highest in the past ten years and 9,3% above that of the previous year. Measured in volume terms, the trade deficit was -3,82 million tonnes, up by 5,4% from 2020. Read more.
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EU-UK TRADE
The United Kingdom left the European Union on 31 January 2020. Despite the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement governing our new relationship, Brexit created barriers to trade and cross-border exchanges, with consequences for public administrations and businesses. Overall, trade between the EU and UK is lower in 2021 than in previous years, both in trems of value and volume. Read more.
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 GLOBAL HIGHLIGHTS
In late April, Norway and the EU reached a political understanding in relation to the fisheries in the Northeast Arctic, in ICES subareas 1 and 2. The area concerned includes the waters around the archipelago of Svalbard and the international waters of the Barents Sea. Read more.
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MA CROECONOMIC CONTEXT
Average prices for marine fuel in May 2022 ranged between 1,01 and 1,04 EUR/litre in ports in France, Italy, Spain, and the UK. Prices increased by an average of 5,9% compared with the previous month and 125,3% compared with the same month in 2021. Read more.
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In focus in the next edition of the Monthly Highlights (No. 6/2022):
- First sales of Common sole in France, Italy, and Spain and European plaice in France, the Netherlands, and Sweden.
- Consumption of squid in Italy.
- Case studies: “Herring in the EU” and “Organic aquaculture in the EU – the main findings”.
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