{"id":635773,"date":"2026-10-20T00:34:42","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T00:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/635773\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T00:34:42","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T00:34:42","slug":"eu-fish-landings-valued-at-e5-5-billion-in-2025-news-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/635773\/","title":{"rendered":"EU fish landings valued at \u20ac5.5 billion in 2025 – News articles"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2025, the total value of fisheries products landed in the EU<\/a> was \u20ac5.5 billion. This was a similar value to that in 2024. The EU\u2019s fish catch<\/a>, taken from the 7 marine areas covered by EU statistics, was an estimated 3.3 million tonnes in 2025.<\/p>\n

The value of fish landings was highest in Spain, accounting for 31% of the EU total, followed by France (18%) and Italy (12%).<\/p>\n

\"Fishery<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0Source dataset: fish_ca_main<\/a><\/p>\n

In terms of weight, the Spanish fishing fleet caught 21% of the EU\u2019s total fish mass, with Denmark (16%) and France (14%) catching the next highest amounts.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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

Nearly three-quarters (72%) of all the fishery products caught by the EU\u2019s fishing fleet in 2025 were in the Northeast Atlantic. The key species caught in this area were herring (18% of the total), blue whiting (17%), sprat (15%) and mackerel (9%).\u00a0<\/p>\n

The second-largest catch was made in the Mediterranean and Black Sea area, contributing 8% of the total EU catch. Key species in this area were sardines (19%) and anchovies (16%).<\/p>\n

\"EU<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0Source datasets: fish_ca_main<\/a>, fish_ca_atl27<\/a>, fish_ca_atl34<\/a>, fish_ca_atl37<\/a> and fish_ca_ind51<\/a><\/p>\n

Another 7% of the total EU catch was taken in the Western Indian Ocean, where almost the entire take (94%) comprised 3 tuna species: skipjack (58%), yellowfin (29%) and bigeye tuna (7%).<\/p>\n

The Eastern Central Atlantic and Southwest Atlantic area each contributed 5% to the total catch. In the Eastern Central Atlantic, the main catches were horse mackerel (38%), skipjack tuna (13%), yellowfin tuna (12%) and mackerel (9%). In the Southwest Atlantic, the catch consisted mainly of hake (79%) and squid (13%).<\/p>\n

The remaining 2% of the total catch was taken in the Northwest and Southeast Atlantic region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2025, the total value of fisheries products landed in the EU was \u20ac5.5 billion. This was a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[6689,138,6172,219,3893,98609,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-635773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-agriculture","tag-business","tag-data-driven-news","tag-economy","tag-fis","tag-forestry-and-fisheries","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}