Fish

(asked on 15th March 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of the total value of fish (a) imports and (b) exports to and from (i) other countries inside and (ii) outside the EU in each of the last 10 years.


Answered by
George Eustice Portrait
George Eustice
This question was answered on 20th March 2017

The information requested on the total value of trade in fish and fish products (excluding fish oils, fish flour and meals) taken from the information collected by HM Revenue and Customs is given in the table below, for the ten years of 2006 to 2015 inclusive. Comparable data for trade in 2016 is not yet available.

Value of UK trade in fish and fish products (£million - exc. Fish oils and fish flour and meals)

Imports into the UK From:

Exports from the UK to:

EU

Non-EU

Total imports

EU

Non-EU

Total exports

2006

556.1

1365.5

1921.6

790.9

153.0

943.9

2007

621.7

1372.2

1993.9

805.8

176.3

982.0

2008

665.4

1544.6

2210.1

824.8

184.7

1009.4

2009

644.5

1532.7

2177.2

899.6

266.5

1166.1

2010

699.0

1555.7

2254.7

1010.8

335.0

1345.7

2011

802.9

1755.7

2558.6

1054.6

409.4

1463.9

2012

799.0

1771.0

2570.0

937.4

406.5

1343.9

2013

848.8

1908.2

2757.0

972.1

488.2

1460.3

2014

849.1

1888.7

2737.8

1014.2

552.0

1566.3

2015

842.6

1830.4

2673.0

921.1

416.3

1337.3

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