The EU imported a record EUR 4.1 billion (USD 4.6 billion) worth of groundfish last year, an increase of EUR 527 million (USD 593 million) compared to 2014, according to new figures published by the European Market Observatory for Fisheries and Aquaculture Products (EUMOFA).
In volume terms, these imports totaled almost 1.2 million metric tons (MT), a decline of 2 percent.
Of these imports, pollock is the second most important species in value (after cod). In 2015, the EU imported 289,000 MT o…