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Sorry, I meant to include this table in with my last post, which should have read like this:
A couple of years ago I looked into fish consumption in the UK for the risk assessment of a hazard analysis study. It was difficult to estimate the amount then, as it seems it is now. I was trying to ensure that even a person or consumer group who had a relatively heavy consumption of fish would be safe from long term intake of contaminants such as heavy metals. This is what I derived, taken from my HACCP:
Data obtained from the Seafish Authority (August 2003) indicate that the average consumption of all types of fish is between 156g per week, or a total consumption of 8.1kg of fish per annum per person. The figures were calculated from sales data that can not easily be translated into consumption patterns these therefore represent the author's best estimate of a maximum average individual consumption.
There is no definition of a 'heavy' fish user in this context and so a figure of twice the average is used, i.e. 312g/week or 16kg/year.
The data supplied covered fresh and frozen sales and was divided between fish types in these approximate proportions.
Approximate Annual Consumption Of Fish Per Head Of Population By Fish Type
%
Average user g/wk (% x 156g)
Heavy user g/wk (% x 312g)
Demersal
40
62.4g
124.8g
Freshwater (salmon/trout)
19
30.0g
60.0g
Shellfish
16
25.0g
50.0g
Pelagic
12
18.7g
37.4g
Other
13
20.1g
40.2g
The figures are not wholly accurate but do demonstrate broadly what may be expected in terms of UK consumption of fish per head. The data indicates relatively low fish consumption across the population. Demersal fish (cod, haddock, plaice) dominates fish consumption (twice that of its nearest competitor), followed by freshwater fish (salmon), then the remainder, which for the purpose of risk assessment can not easily be specified.
Cheers Richard
----- Original Message -----
From: Clive Askew
To: Alex Augusto Gonçalves ; Seafood group ; Peter Howgate ; Roy Palmer
Sent: Monday, September 01, 2008 10:29 AM
Subject: Re: Annual Per Capita Consumption Seafood
Dear list,
The last global figure I have was given by Catherine Mariojouls at Bordeaux Aquaculture in 2004. That was 16.3Kg/capita, with Japan at 66.3 Kg apparent consumption in 2002. However, one big cautionary point which Ray Rice of ISSFAL pointed out, based on a study in Australia. his is that seafood consumption is very biased by a small part of the population eating a lot. Consequently there was an enormous difference between mean and median consumption. In terms of omega-3 intake, the mean was 185 mg per day, but the median was only 40mg. The average person does not eat the average diet!
I can get the reference to the Australian paper (it maybe in Ray Rice's presentation which is on the ISSFAL website-BDA Meeting London May 2007)
Regards to all.
Clive Askew
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----- Original Message -----
From: Alex Augusto Gonçalves
To: Seafood group ; Peter Howgate ; Roy Palmer
Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2008 10:39 PM
Subject: RE: Annual Per Capita Consumption Seafood
Hi Roy,
This issue should be discussed in the 8th IAFI Seafood World Congress (Agadir, Morocco, 5-10 October 2009), what do you think?
In Brazil the seafood consumption remains uncertain... Each institution show different average, but the average of these values is around 6.5 kg but varies by state too (i.e. North region is around up to 30 kg; Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Santa Catarina states should be around 20 kg; Minas Gerais < 1kg; etc.).
We must to improve our seafood consumption immediatly.... we have environmental conditions for aquaculture (is growing fast), but why our consumption is lower??
Here in Halifax, I don't know exactly the seafood consumption, but I ate every day seafood in my lunch/dinner.
Best regards,
Alex
-------Original Message-------
From: Roy Palmer
Date: 8/31/2008 5:31:54 PM
To: Alex Augusto Gonçalves; Seafood group; Peter Howgate
Subject: RE: Annual Per Capita Consumption Seafood
Alex
You raise an interesting issue and Peter has put you on the right trail
In my recent discussions in Australia I have been using a figure of overall consumption of 14.7 kgs but even this varies state by state based on studies that have been done over the years - some places are just more seafood traditional than others, and there has not been a national study done for many years here.
It is difficult to get correct figures because there are many factors unknown eg we are never sure of recreational fishing and the consumption thereof, IUU issues, people feeding food fish to their pets (as recently reported here cats of Australia consume 13kgs per head) - best guestimates as outlined by Peter and any National Studies done on Seafood Consumption (fairly rare).
Japan closely followed by Korea are the leaders and Portugal and Spain are the leaders in EU as far as I could tell - again Peter was on the button with his comment about those declining, probably attributed to their fishing fleets cutting back and in Japan changes to a more western style diet (dont do it Japan...)
What I thought was interesting was that in both Japan and Spain they both are noted for small regular meals eg sushi/sashimi and tapas - wonder if that has anything to do with it ?
Both these culinary aspects are increasing here which may well be a positive
We (SEA) have worked with Seafish Authority in UK and are using their logo (2 seafood meals per week) to increase the consumption of seafood here (launching shortly) . Based on current consumption we are sitting at around 0.7 meals per week. We could have created our own logo but it was thought that a consistent message right round the world (if could be created) would be a stronger message in the longer term. Others welcome...
Cheers
Roy
Roy D Palmer, FAICD
Executive Officer - SEA
Theme Leader Industry E & T - Seafood CRC
Director IAFI
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Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:01:23 -0300
From: alaugo@gmail.com
To: seafood@ucdavis.edu; phowgate@clara.co.uk
Subject: Re: Annual Per Capita Consumption Seafood
Hi Peter,
Thanks for these information. In fact, I am looking data from 2005 to now but I will check data from FAO (I don't know, but the website today was inaccessible...).
Have a safe day!
Alex
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From: Peter Howgate
Date: 8/31/2008 12:28:46 PM
To: Alex Augusto Gonçalves; Seafood group
Subject: Re: Annual Per Capita Consumption Seafood
Alex
Comprehensive data on consumption of fish and shellfish are available in 'Fish and Fishery Products. World apparent consumption statistics based on food balance sheets. FAO Fishery Circular No. 821'. The latest version is no. 7 and includes data up to 2003. The data are also available at FAOSTAT, but again only up to year 2003. The world per capita consumption, mean for the years 2001-2003, are shown in FAO's Yearbooks of Fishery Statistics, Summary Tables for 2005 available at ftp://ftp.fao.org/fi/stat/summary/summ_05/default.htm. This gives a value of 16.3 kg/person/year, live weight equivalents. 'Live weight equivalents' is the weight as caught, and not landed weight, which could be for gutted, headed, shucked and so on, so the data is not fish consumed. The gross overall world consumption can be arrived at by dividing the fisheries production, caught and harvested, used for human consumption by the world population. The production for human consumption is given in the FAO Summary tables and values for the world population from elsewhere. The FAO tables go up to 2005, but in the 10 year span, 1995-2005, per capita consumption has increased more or less linearly and the trend estimates a consumption in 2007 of 17.0 kg/person/year, increasing by 0.14 units/year.
I would be chary of extrapolating these values too far. Capture fisheries seem to have reached a plateau and might even decrease in coming years. Production from aquaculture has been increasing approximately linearly over the last decade, but population has been increasing approximately exponentially so world per capita consumption can be expected to decrease at some point. I can hear Malthus claiming: "I told you so".
If you want consumption data for individual countries for 2007 I would suggest you extract the relevant data for, say, a 10 year span from the FAOSTAT table and extrapolate. Unless there is a marked change in consumption patterns in a country over 4 years I think they will give a reasonably accurate prediction. It is interesting to examine changes in consumption of fish and shellfish by countries. In those with history high consumptions, e.g. Japan, Spain, there is a trend for consumption to decrease, whereas for may developing countries there is a trend for an increase.
Peter Howgate
----- Original Message -----
From: Alex Augusto Gonçalves
To: Seafood group
Cc: FAOSTAT@fao.org
Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2008 1:24 PM
Subject: Annual Per Capita Consumption Seafood
Dear colleagues,
I am looking for current (2007-) statistics of annual per capita consumption of seafood & seafood products around the world.
I tried this search in some databases but no results I found...
Somebody could help me?
Thanks in advance.
Alex
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