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This document provides a review of fisheries and aquaculture
in Europe, including Russia and the other six European Republics
of the former USSR. Fishery production for the region as a whole
is worth over US$ 20 billion first sale value per year, or about
20% of the world total. In terms of quantity, the region accounts
for about 23% of the world's capture fishery production but only
12% of global aquaculture production, although the former has
been declining in recent years and the latter growing. Europe
is also a major region for fish trade, with the European Union
alone accounting for about one third of the world's fish imports.
Some European countries have very high levels of fish consumption
by world standards.
The two major country groupings are considered separately: (1)
the Industrialized Countries of Western Europe which have in general
an adequate food supply with demand for fish satisfied through
domestic production and imports, and (2) the less prosperous Transition
Countries of Eastern Europe and the former USSR which are in the
process of changing to market economies with consequent decreases
in fish production. Two Transition Countries are classified as
Low-Income Food-Deficit Countries. One section of this review
deals with the current fisheries situation including the role
of fisheries in the economy, fishery production, utilisation,
trade, consumption, technology and investment in fisheries. Various
issues are also discussed. Finally, the outlook for European fisheries
and aquaculture is considered.
The FAO Fisheries Circular is a vehicle for the distribution of
short or ephemeral notes, lists, etc., including provisional versions
of documents to be issued later in other series.
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