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        FIRST SALE

Description

First sale is the landed fish that is sold or registered at an auction centre to registered buyers or to producer organisations (PO). Volumes, value and prices are reported. Volumes are expressed in net weight for EU countries, the Faroe Islands, Iceland and the United Kingdom, and in live weight equivalent (lwe) for Norway. Prices are expressed in EUR/kg (without VAT). For Norway, they are expressed in EUR/kg of live weight. First sales may differ from landings since the former do not cover fish that is landed by vessels owned by processing companies or direct sales to processors.

 

        FIRST SALE

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        FIRST SALE / REAL-TIME DATA

Several sources in many EU countries provide first sales data on a real-time or daily basis. EUMOFA has inventoried them and listed related links below. In case you know other sites providing this type of service, please contact the EUMOFA Team at contact-us@eumofa.eu for integrating them into this list.

 

Country covered Source Dissemination language Frequency of updating Link
Multiple countries Fish Information Services English Daily http://www.fis.com/fis/marketprices/index.asp?l=e
Multiple countries Pefa English, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish Daily https://www.pefa.com
Belgium Vlaamse Visveiling English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish Daily http://www.vlvis.be/Home/Auctions
Denmark Hanstholm Fiskeauktion Danish, English, German Daily http://www.fiskeauktion.dk
Denmark Danske Fiskeauktioner English, Danish Daily http://dfa.as/index.asp
France CCI Métropolitiane Bretagne Ouest French Daily http://www.w-fish.com/Default.aspx?Page=Pages/Content_inscription.htm
France CCI des Côtes d'Armor Website available in English, French, Italian and Spanish. Data available only in French. Daily http://portsdepeche.cotesdarmor.cci.fr/
Iceland Reiknistofa Fiskmarkada Icelandic Daily https://rsf.is/
Italy Efish Website available in English and in Italian. Data available only in Italian. Daily, with updates every 5 minutes http://www.efish.it/aste-online-e-quotazioni-in-tempo-reale-mercati-ittici.html
Netherlands Electronic Fish Information Center Europe (EFICE) Dutch, English Daily http://www.efice.com/EN/Home/default.aspx
Norway Norges Sildesalgslag English Daily https://www.sildelaget.no/en/
Norway SUROFI Norwegian Daily https://www.surofi.no/salgs-og-landingsinfo/dagens-ferske-landinger/
Norway Norges Råfisklag Norwegian, Russian, English Daily https://www.rafisklaget.no/portal/page/portal/NR
Portugal Docapesca Website available in English and in Portuguese. List of species available only in Portuguese. Daily, with updates every 30 minutes http://www.docapesca.pt/en/facts-and-figures/daily-figures.html
Spain Puerto de Vigo Website available in English, French and Spanish. List of species available only in Spanish. Daily https://www.apvigo.es/paginas/lonja_hoy
Sweden Pefa Swedish Daily http://www.stockholmsfiskauktion.se/prisnoteringar-pefa
Sweden Pefa Swedish Daily http://www.smogens-fiskauktion.com/prisnoteringar
United Kingdom Grimsby Fish market English Daily http://www.grimsbyfishmarket.co.uk/fishprices/prices/
United Kingdom Peterhead fish market English Daily https://www.donfishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Peterhead-Daily-Fish-Prices.pdf
United Kingdom Scrabster Harbour English Daily http://www.scrabster.co.uk/port-information/fish-prices/
United Kingdom Donfishing English Daily https://www.donfishing.com/
United Kingdom Caley Fisheries English Daily http://www.caley-fisheries.co.uk/market.php
United Kingdom Shetland Seafood Auctions English Daily http://www.shetlandauction.com/White-Fish/Daily-Prices
United Kingdom Fish 4 Market English Daily http://www.f4m.info/

 

 

 

 

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         LANDINGS

Description

Landings mean the initial unloading of any quantity of fisheries products from on board a fishing vessel to land in a given country, regardless of the nationality of the vessel making the landings, but also fishery products landed by the country’s vessels in non-EU countries. Landings are reported in net weight and in euro.

 

 

         LANDINGS

 

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       AQUACULTURE

Description

Aquaculture refers to the farming of aquatic (freshwater or saltwater) organisms, such as fish, molluscs, crustaceans and aquatic plants. Aquaculture data are reported in live weight equivalent and value.

 

 

       AQUACULTURE

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       AQUACULTURE

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      IMPORT - EXPORT

Description

Exports (extra-EU) are goods recorded by Member States when they leave the territory of the EU (transit is not included).

 

Imports (extra-EU) are goods recorded by Member States when they enter the territory of the EU (transit is not included).

 

Intra-EU trade statistics record the trade of goods between Member States.

 

The standard source of extra-EU trade statistics is the customs declaration. For intra-EU trade, the source is any VAT-registered business that trades goods with other Member States.

 

For exports, the partner country is the country identified at the time of export as the final destination of the goods.

 

For imports, the partner country is the country of origin of the goods.

 

From 2021, EUMOFA reports imports from the UK under the code “GB” as origin mentioned in the customs declarations. These imports do not cover products which wholly originate in Northern Ireland. Exhaustive imports data from UK will be available once the customs treatment modalities under the Protocol on Ireland and Northern Ireland regarding fisheries and aquaculture products will be defined.

 

 

      IMPORT - EXPORT

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      IMPORT - EXPORT

  • International trade and the EU market for fisheries and aquaculture products (2015)
  • Eurostat: Quality report on European statistics on international trade in goods (2019)

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      PROCESSING

Description

Processing of fishery and aquaculture products (FAP’s) refers to the processes that transform the raw material into the final product delivered to the customer.

 

 

      PROCESSING

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     RETAIL - CONSUMPTION

Description

Consumption refers to the amount of fisheries and aquaculture products that are consumed during a given period, and within a geographic area, such as a country.

 

In EUMOFA, consumption data are provided as:

  • online retail prices, disseminated as daily in the related bulk download section and aggregated as monthly in the Online retail prices dashboard;
  • volumes and values of consumption of fresh products recorded by a sample of households, disseminated as monthly in the Household consumption of fresh products dashboard;
  • volumes of “apparent consumption”, disseminated as yearly data in the Supply balance sheet dashboard.

"Apparent consumption" is calculated by using the supply balance sheet that provides an estimate of the supply of fishery and aquaculture products available for human consumption at EU level.

The calculation of the supply balance sheet is based on the equation:

Apparent consumption =

[(total catches – industrial catches) + aquaculture + imports] – exports.

Catches targeted for fishmeal (industrial catches) are excluded. Non-food use products are also excluded from imports and exports.

 

 

     RETAIL - CONSUMPTION

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  • Supply balance sheet
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Data

The EUMOFA database is accessible by supply chain stage, through simple and advanced tables, and through the bulk download facility. Data are available on weekly, monthly and yearly bases.

Click on the buttons on the top for accessing to the related sections and for opening the data tables.

 

Through the menu on the left, you can access to:

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  • Sources of data, containing all specifications about sources used to feed into the EUMOFA database;
  • Harmonisation, where you can find overall rules adopted by EUMOFA for harmonising data collected;
  • Metadata, containing all detailed explanations on EUMOFA functioning.
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