The bigger picture: Seafood’s role in European animal protein consumption

Overall, the EU’s production and consumption of animal protein has increased strongly in recent years, but while growth has been seen in the bloc’s seafood harvest, its per capita consumption of fish has decreased, finds the latest analysis from the European Commission’s European Market Observatory for Fisheries and Aquaculture Products (EUMOFA).

EUMOFA reported that EU beef production increased from 7.2 million metric tons (MT) in 2013 to 7.8 million MT in 2016; pork…