- In 2017, the consumption of domestic fish was little over four kilos per person, and the consumption of imported fish, slightly nearly ten kilos. The consumption of domestic fish is calculated in fillet weight and that of imported fish, mainly in product weight.
- Of domestic fish species, consumers favoured farmed rainbow trout most (1.2 kilos), and of imported fish species, the consumption of farmed salmon was highest (4.0 kilos). The consumption of imported salmon increased by nearly 14 per cent from the previous year.
- Of domestic wild fish species, consumers used most vendace (0.61 kilos). The next were pike (0.44 kilos), pearch (0.41 kilos), pikepearch (0.40 kilos), baltic herring (0.31 kilos) and european whitefish (0.29 kilos).
- After farmed salmon, the most used imported products were tuna products, farmed rainbow trout, canned herring, frozen saithe, shrimps and shrimp products.
Fish consumption
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