Summer fish sales fall in Spain due to the lack of foreign tourists

The employers' associations of traditional retailers (Fedepesca) and mass consumption companies (Aecoc) confirm an increase in the consumption of fish and shellfish on the coasts and a decline in the interior, typical of the summer season, but the pandemic continues to slow down sales , in general. The director of Fedepesca, María Luisa Álvarez, tells Efeagro that, in general, the dispatch of fish is 30% lower than that registered by fishmongers in the summer of 2020, with "cities quite empty" and a greater decrease in cities such as Madrid. Álvarez explains that the supply of fish and shellfish in Spain is higher, but "there is no foreign tourism" and that means "many millions of people" who do not consume them. He points out that citizens "are going out more" to have lunch or dinner, with the de-escalation, and begin to travel, but that this does not compensate for the absence of foreign visitors; in addition to the fact that Spaniards eat less fish when they go to catering ...