Available data on first sales in the 15th week of the year for a handful of EU Member States “show an increase in first-sale prices for several species of groundfish and flatfish”, notes the European Market Observatory for Fisheries and Aquaculture Products (EUMOFA) on Thursday 16 April.
The increase in first-sale prices may be due, it said, to an increase in demand during the Easter holidays. “However, it should be noted that volumes sold at the first-sale stage were generally low...