Fig. 1: Overview of the long-term annual average of UK seafood production, imports, exports, purchases and consumption.

A schematic is shown of the long-term annual average volume (in tonnes) by species type (marine fish (A), molluscs (B), crustaceans (C), diadromous fish (D) and other (E)) between 2009 and 2020. ‘Other’ includes the Food and Agricultural Organization categories freshwater fish and miscellaneous aquatic animals40.