{"id":152683,"date":"2025-11-21T22:35:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T22:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/152683\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T22:35:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T22:35:13","slug":"eu-fish-landings-valued-at-e5-5-billion-in-2024-news-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/152683\/","title":{"rendered":"EU fish landings valued at \u20ac5.5 billion in 2024 – News articles"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2024, the total value of fisheries products landed in the EU<\/a> was \u20ac5.5 billion. The EU\u2019s fish catch<\/a> was estimated at 3.2 million tonnes, taken from the 7 marine areas covered by EU statistics.<\/p>\n

The value of fish landings was highest in Spain, accounting for 30% of the EU total. France followed with 16% and Denmark with 13%.<\/p>\n

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Source dataset: fish_ca_main<\/a><\/p>\n

In terms of weight, the top 3 countries remained the same. Spanish fishing fleet caught 21% of the total fish mass, ahead of France (15%) and Denmark (14%).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Most EU catches were made in the Northeast Atlantic region<\/p>\n

The majority (71%) of the fish catch made by the EU\u2019s fishing fleet was in the Northeast Atlantic. The key species caught in this area were herring (19%), blue whiting (17%), sprat (13%) and mackerel (10%).\u00a0<\/p>\n

9% of the total EU catch was taken in the Mediterranean and Black Seas, with sardines and anchovies being the main species fished there (18% each).<\/p>\n

Another 7% of the total EU catch was taken in the Eastern Central Atlantic area. The main catches in this area were yellowfin tuna and horse mackerel (accounting for 27% and 25% of the total catch there, respectively). Other key species caught were skipjack tuna (9%) and mackerel (8%).<\/p>\n

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Source datasets: fish_ca_main<\/a>, fish_ca_atl27<\/a>, fish_ca_atl34<\/a>, fish_ca_atl37<\/a> and fish_ca_ind51<\/a><\/p>\n

The Western Indian Ocean area contributed 6% to the total EU catch, with 3 tuna species dominating the take (accounting for 94% of the total). These were skipjack (54%), yellowfin (33%) and bigeye tuna (7%).<\/p>\n

Another 5% of the EU catch came from the Southwest Atlantic area, mainly consisting of hake (72%) and squid (17%).<\/p>\n

The remaining 2% of the total catch was taken in the Northwest and Southeast Atlantic region.<\/p>\n

This article marks the World Fisheries Day celebrated on 21 November.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2024, the total value of fisheries products landed in the EU was \u20ac5.5 billion. The EU\u2019s fish…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3810,72,757,113,66150,86132,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-152683","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-agriculture","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-data-driven-news","11":"tag-economy","12":"tag-fis","13":"tag-forestry-and-fisheries","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}