The 2018 Economic Report on Aquaculture, published on Thursday 3 January by the European Commission, shows a growing sector with increasingly stable employment.
In 2016, the EU Aquaculture Sector produced and sold 1.4 million tonnes of seafood products, worth almost €5 billion. The sector's profits doubled between 2014 and 2016.
Production in the EU aquaculture sector increased by 2.2% per year between 2014 and 2016 in volume and by 3.1% in value. Profit almost doubled over the same...