Summer tourists promote Spanish fish consumption in bars at low hours

Tourism is boosting the consumption of fish and seafood in bars and restaurants on the Spanish coasts, on the islands and in the towns this summer, in a context of concern in the fishing sector about the decline in households. Summer, together with Christmas, is one of the main times of the year for the turnover of fishing companies, and this year the trend of "displacement of sales from the interior to the coast" is repeated, but, according to trade sources retail, there are doubts as to whether it will offset the decline in household purchases. Fishmongers and large retailers are going through July and August after a year marked by inflation and although the CPI for fish rose less than that for other foods, "in the citizen's imagination the erroneous idea has remained that it is expensive," according to according to sources from the entire production and sales chain. The director of the federation that brings together traditional fishmongers, Fedepesca, María Luisa Álvarez, has ...