Frozen fish is the only major Spanish item with positive external trade figures in the fisheries and aquaculture sector. During 2014 483,480 tonnes of frozen fish were exported, valued close to 691.2 million euros. These figures indicate a significant year-on-year increase of 14% in weight, while in value there was a fall of 10.6%. Meanwhile, […]
In general, the Spanish frozen fish sector is in the hands of a few large groups, among which are some of the large Spanish fishing groups along with multinational companies. The leading group has been immersed in a serious crisis situation, due to an internal accounting fraud. It is a huge multinational (Pescanova) that is […]
The tall ships already have today equipment to realize the freezing of the product fish on board. However, in order to keep fish frozen or freeze fish obtained from lowland fishing or those that have required some processing, Spanish ports have an important infrastructure for storing and processing fishery products. This sector is especially important […]