Healthy returns from by-product pathways
Around 24 million tonnes of edible products generated by fisheries and aquaculture are being lost across supply chains every year, according to estimates made by the World Economic Forum (WEF), with the organisation further determining that most of this waste is occurring at the on-land processing stage of the value chain, before these products reach the retail and foodservice sectors. In its report “Investigating Global Aquatic Food Loss and Waste”, WEF also finds that edible-quality waste represents 14.8% of global seafood production and explains that processing losses are largely due to market demands, with higher income nations tending to prefer fillets and other easy-to-cook and consume preparations made from popular species such as salmon, tuna, cod, haddock, and shrimp. By comparison, lower-income countries tend to eat more fresh whole fish.
Around 24 million tonnes of edible products generated by fisheries and aquaculture are being lost across supply chains every year, according to estimates made by the World Economic Forum (WEF), with the organisation further determining that most of this waste is occurring at the on-land processing stage of the value chain, before these products reach the retail and foodservice sectors. In its report “Investigating Global Aquatic Food Loss and Waste”, WEF also finds that edible-quality waste represents 14.8% of global seafood production and explains that processing losses are largely due to market demands, with higher income nations tending to prefer fillets and other easy-to-cook and consume preparations made from popular species such as salmon, tuna, cod, haddock, and shrimp. By comparison, lower-income countries tend to eat more fresh whole fish.
