BRUSSELS, Belgium -- As the utilization of EU fisheries by fishermen continues to decline, the EU's fish processors and traders association (AIPCE-CEP) has urged the union not to put unnecessary barriers or regulations in the way of seafood imports.
In 2018, the EU's self-sufficiency across the seven major whitefish species fell to just 10.5%, according to data presented by Simon Rilatt, chairman of AIPCE-CEP's trade working group, at the organization's 60th anniversary meeting in Brussels.
"We look at the self-sufficiency in some of the key species, you can see that at cod, we are now actually below 10%," Rilatt told listeners. "That is the first time we’ve gone above 90% import dependency."
The EU's total cod supply dropped 4% to 1.173m tons in 2018, of which just 114,000t came from EU fisheries. Meanwhile, haddock self-sufficiency has remained relatively stable year-on-year at 24%, as EU fisheries supply 47,000t of the 195,000t supply [...]
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