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This Market Insight factsheet provides a full picture of cod in the retail, foodservice and trade markets.

The UK Sea Fish Industry Authority’s Risk Assessment for Sourcing Seafood (RASS) Scoring Guidance Version 2 revised April 2024

In September ‘97 a shellfish merchant purchased a novel system for banding the claws of the brown crab, Cancer pagurus. The banding system had been developed by the North Atlantic Fisheries College (NAFC), in Shetland, who have been conducting research into novel methods of restraining the claws of brown crab, primarily with a view to airfreighting product to foreign markets. The equipment, Fig 2, Appendix 1, is currently manufactured by HNP Engineers (Shetland) and has been marketed since early 1997. Seafish were requested to assist in investigating the suitability of the system for a crab fishery located off the East coast of England. The main interest was the efficacy of the bands on crabs which were subjected to medium term immersed storage in live holding tanks. Previous research by Seafish on restraints for brown crab is described in Seafish report No. 423. The work involved evaluating different designs of restraint in specialised conditions, with the aim of producing a design suitable for the U.K. vivier trade.

The Seafish 2023-2028 Corporate Plan sets out our five year strategy to support the UK seafood industry to thrive. It includes detail on how we will measure our impact. This is an accessible PDF

The three species, tuna salmon and cod dominate the UK retail seafood market by volume. This report summarises both the UK imports and exports of cod and cod sales in both retail and foodservice channels

This is the second in a series of reports covering product development and marketing work carried out by the White Fish Authority as part of its overall programme for expanding the market for under-utilised shellfish species. The work was carried out under a joint contract by a well known shellfish processing company in order to develop a range of sophisticated and up-market products based on cockles and mussels. A wide range of products was developed, a small number of which were extensively researched and consumer tested, and this report is concerned with the first of these products, a frozen breaded mixture of various shellfish and pieces of white fish called “Seafood Platter”. This report has been produced from a scanned original and may therefore contain some formatting and other inaccuracies. In cases where this affects the technical content, a paper copy of the original report can still be obtained from Seafish.

The scallop industry in Japan is the most valuable shellfish culture industry at around 34 billion yen production (£68 million). It is second to the oyster industry in terms of production tonnage at 150,000 tons/year as compared to 220,000 tons for the oyster industry. Values of scallop meats remain steady at around £560/ton for in shell and £1,400 ton for shucked meats. The rise in this industry represents one of the most successful examples of the revival and utilisation of a natural marine resource. The scallop under going cultivation in Japan is Patinopecten vessoensis (Jay), “hotategai”, basically a cold water shellfish whose southern limit of distribution is about 35 degrees latitude on the Pacific and Japan sea coast. The main cultivation areas however, are to be found in the north of Honshu and in Hokkaido. This discussion centres on 3 cultivation areas, which in terms of production tonnage are probably the most important scallop growing areas in Japan. These are Mutsu Bay in Komori Prefecture, Funka Bay in S E Hokkaido and Lake Saroma in the north of Hokkaido with the adjoining Okhotak Sea coast. The scallop cultivation technique depends on the relatively simple concept of collecting newly settled stages of the shelled larvae (called ‘spat’) and on growing or raising these juveniles in a protected, maintained environment until they are of a commercial size and can be marketed. Scallop cultivation is one of the relatively new culture processes in Japan with commercially significant tonnages of cultured scallop being produced only in this decade. However, the collection of settled scallop spat on ‘collectors’ and the subsequent sowing of selected juveniles in seabed areas are favourable for their growth, goes back to the 1930’s. This report has been produced from a scanned original and may therefore contain some formatting and other inaccuracies. In cases where this affects the technical content, a paper copy of the original report can still be obtained from Seafish.

Initial trials with double rigged gear on a SW beam trawler in 1982 had demonstrated the feasibility of working this rig in UK waters. In 1983 trial fishing was carried out successfully on Celtic Sea nephrops (prawn) stocks. Increased catch rates in comparison with single trawl rigs were recorded and gear handling was further refined. Problems highlighted included the shorting effort required with increased catches of prawn and limited market in the SW. This report has been produced from a scanned original and may therefore contain some formatting and other inaccuracies. In cases where this affects the technical content, a paper copy of the original report can still be obtained from Seafish

The report describes trials which formed part of the SFIA's static gear investigations. The overall aim of these trials has been to obtain information which will enable comparisons to be made of the catching characteristics of gill nets rigged in different ways.