Ornamental Fish

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About 300,000 individual fish are imported into the UK annually, with a wet weight of just over 2 tonnes. An average value of £400,000 ($600,000) per tonne at import. In this period tropical Groupers and Wrasse were available from retail fishmongers for human consumption at approximately £10,000 per tonne wet weight.

Imports of ornamental marine fish into the UK and EU 1995
	Consigns	Boxes	Fish	Freight	Value (£)
Australia Barbados Costa Rica Dom. Rep. Fiji Maldives P. Rica S. Arabia Total As % of total imports of ornamental marine fish	23 25 9 3 25 36 6 9 136 -	393 8,338 190 56 520 941 88 141 2,567 -	10,987 4,343 1,924 1,571 21,907 27,052 3,214 2,075 73,350 -	2,770 2,030 2,070 254 8,771 12,810 1,150 2,202 32,057 32.4	22,825 13,249 11,413 1,277 44,319 75,943 10,004 17,350 196,380 27.5

Estimated total of marine fish imported

100/32.4

226,388

73,350

Say 275,000 to allow for these countries being responsible for export of larger specimens.

Eurostat freight weight data

Eurostat freight weight data is prepared differently in each member state, so it is of little use for purposes of comparision.

Total value EU imports in '000 Ecus - 8007
Total value UK imports in '000 Ecus - 863
Total value UK imports in '000 Ecus - 863

Estimate of total number of marine fish imported into the EU = 2.5 million fish.