Fish Roe in Europe: Supply and Demand Conditions by Marie Christine Monfort Consultant, GLOBEFISH (November 2002) The GLOBEFISH Research Programme is an activity initiated by FAO's Fishery Industries Division, Rome, Italy and financed jointly by: - NMFS (National Marine Fisheries Service), Washington, DC, USA - FROM, Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación, Madrid, Spain - Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, Copenhagen, Denmark - Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Fishing Industry Services, Ottawa, Canada - European Commission, Directorate General for Fisheries, Brussels, EU - Norwegian Seafood Export Council, Tromsoe, Norway - IREPA (Istituto Ricerche Economiche per la Pesca e l'Acquacoltura), Salerno, Italy - Fundación Chile, Santiago, Chile - OFIMER (Office National Interprofessionnel des Produits de la Mer et de l’Aquaculture), Paris, France Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, GLOBEFISH, Fishery Industries Division Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00100 Rome, Italy – Tel.: (39) 06570 56313/06570 54759 - E-mail: [email protected] - Fax: (39) 0657055188 – http//:www.globefish.org The designation employed and the presentation of material in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. Permission to use the cover page photograph has graciously been granted to FAO by Agroittica Lombarda SpA, Calvisano, Italy. Both the sturgeon caviar and the pearls in the photograph come from aquaculture. Monfort, M. C. Fish Roe in Europe: Supply and Demand Conditions. FAO/GLOBEFISH Research Programme, Vol. 72. Rome, FAO. 2002. 47p. Summary The report gives an overview of the European market for fish roe, including caviar, the species used in roe production and the different segments of the market. International trade statistics and imports tariffs for fish roe are also included. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. Applications for such permission, with a statement of the purpose and extent of the reproduction, should be addressed to the Director, Information Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00100 Rome, Italy. © FAO 2002 FOREWORD AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This report is the result of investigations carried out in March and April 2002 by seafood marketing consultant, Marie Christine Monfort. A large number of public and private sources of information have been compiled and many websites have been visited. These are either referred to directly in the text or mentioned in Appendix 2. The author hereby thanks all private business operators who accepted to share with her their specific knowledge. iii TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword and Acknowledgements......................................................................................................iii 1. Introduction ...................................................................................................................................... 1 2. Trade data and possible interpretation ..........................................................................................2 2.1 EU trade data................................................................................................................................. .. .............2 2.2 Limits of interpretations ................................................................................................................ .. .............2 2.3 Fresh and frozen roe...................................................................................................................... .. .............2 2.4 Prepared fish roe...........................................................................................................................................4 2.5 Market access conditions............................................................................................................... .. .............5 3. Caviar - sturgeon roe............................................................................................................. ........... 6 3.1 Fish and product presentation........................................................................................................ .. .............6 3.2 Origin of roe and production conditions.......................................................................................................7 3.3 Product presentation: raw product-processing-end product .........................................................................7 3.4 Retail price indications.................................................................................................................... .............9 3.5 Trade data (European imports)........................................................................................................ .............9 3.6 Farmed sturgeon and caviar.......................................................................................................... .. ...........11 Summary .............................................................................................................................................. .. ...........11 4. Cod roe ................................................................................................................................. .. ......... 13 4.1 Fish and product presentation........................................................................................................ .. ...........13 4.2 Origin of roe and production conditions.....................................................................................................14 4.3 Product presentation: raw product-processing-end product .......................................................... .. ...........15 4.4 Retail price indications.................................................................................................................. .. ...........17 4.5 Trade ............................................................................................................................................. .. ...........17 Summary .............................................................................................................................................. .. ...........18 Other whitefish roe............................................................................................................................... .. ...........19 5. Lumpfish roe........................................................................................................................ .. ......... 20 5.1 Fish and product presentation........................................................................................................ .. ...........20 5.2 Origin of roe and production conditions.....................................................................................................20 5.3 Product presentation: raw product-processing-end product .......................................................................24 5.4 Retail price indications.................................................................................................................. .. ...........24 5.5 Trade data...................................................................................................................................................25 Summary .............................................................................................................................................. .. ...........25 6. Poutargue – Mullet roe and tuna roe................................................................................. .. ......... 27 6.1 Fish and product presentation.....................................................................................................................27 6.2 Origin of roe and production conditions.....................................................................................................27 6.3 Product presentation: raw product-processing-end product .......................................................................28 6.4 Retail price indications...............................................................................................................................29 iv 6.5 Trade data (European imports), by countries ................................................................................ .. ...........29 Summary .............................................................................................................................................. .. ...........29 7. Herring roe...................................................................................................................................... 30 7.1 Fish and product presentation........................................................................................................ .. ...........30 7.2 Origin of roe and production conditions.....................................................................................................30 7.3 Product presentation: raw product-processing-end product .......................................................................31 8. Capelin roe .....................................................................................................................................