Scottish salmon is named UK’s top food export for 2023

Scottish salmon was the UK’s top food export by value in 2023, figures from HMRC show. Export sales for the calendar year totalled £581m, up by 5% year-or-year and equivalent to £1.6m every day. France – which is a key processor for on-sale to other countries as well as a major consumer of salmon –…

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Scottish salmon exports soar by 25%

EXPORTS of Scottish farmed salmon for the first six months of this year are up 25 per cent in value on last year’s figures, to £319 million. And according to figures published today by HMRC, volume has also increased by 25 per cent, to 47,000 tonnes, compared to the same period in 2018. France was…

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Scottish seafood ‘key to prosperity’

SCOTLAND’S First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has hailed the ‘astonishing growth’ of seafood and whisky exports to China at the start of her official visit to Beijing this week. Scottish seafood – mainly farmed salmon – continues to be Scotland’s chief food export to China, valued at £50 million in 2017, up 12-fold in ten years.…

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Scottish salmon exports soar to record £600m

SCOTTISH farmed salmon exports reached a record high of £600 million last year, 35 per cent up on the previous year’s total. New figures released by HMRC yesterday also showed that export tonnage of salmon had increased in 2017, by 26 per cent. The US remains the largest market for Scottish salmon with sales worth…

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