Fish consumption 2021

In 2021, Finnish people consumed over four kilos of domestic fish and over eight kilos of imported fish per person. The consumption of domestic fish has been converted into fillets while the consumption of imported fish has primarily been calculated on the basis of the product weight.

• The most important domestic species in terms of consumption was farmed rainbow trout (1.4 kilos per person), while of imported fish, farmed salmon was consumed the most (3.4 kilos per person). The consumption of imported salmon was little less than 2020.
• Of wild-caught domestic fish, perch was consumed the most (0.67 kilos per person). It was followed by pike (0.47 kilos), vendace (0.36 kilos), Baltic herring (0.35 kilos), pikeperch (0.30 kilos), and European whitefish (0.26 kilos).
• With regard to the consumption of imported fish products, farmed Norwegian salmon was followed by canned tuna and other tuna products, shrimps and shrimp products, Atlantic herring products and frozen Pollock.