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From Holy week and Easter, the main consumption period for fishery products in Europe, is being celebrated early this year. Traders are stocking up quickly, as cold storage holdings in Europe are low for all major products. This strong demand is leading to higher prices in all leading markets. Notably, shrimp has suddenly regained popularity, after bleak demand which had characterized the whole of 2023; accordingly, its prices increased sharply. With regard to tuna, a...
From 1 January to 15 December 2023, exports of fish and seafood from the Russian Federation amounted to 2.08 million tonnes, according to the Customs Service statistics and Rosselkhoznadzor's Argus information system. This represents a 30 percent increase over the same period in 2022, when Russian exports of fish and seafood were just over 1.6 million tonnes. China has become the largest export destination; the seafood shipments to this country have increased almost three times,...
After the Christmas rush, the European fish market came to a standstill in January 2024, which is a normal feature for this time of the year. Demand is slow, and prices have declined from the high levels reached in December 2023.
The recent tense developments in the Red Sea are likely to have a strong impact on fish trade in the world market; significant increases in price levels are expected, after the normalization that had characterized...
The inflation rate in the Euro Area declined to 2.4 percent year-on-year in November 2023, reaching its lowest level since July 2021, this rate compares to 2.9 percent in October and 4.3 percent in September. In this European Fish Price Report, 55 percent of the prices were stable compared with November 2023, 22 percent went up and 23 percent went down.
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Inflation continues its decline to 2.9 percent in October 2023, which compares with 4.3 percent in September. The lowest annual rates were observed in the Netherlands, Denmark and Belgium while the highest were recorded in the Eastern part of the continent. In the current European Fish Price Report, 52 percent of the prices were stable compared with October 2023, 20 percent went up and 28 percent went down.
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