8 Jul, 2016 @ 18:00
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Spain’s fish production increases by more than 10%

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spain aqua cultureSPANISH fish production grew by 10.2% last year, bringing in €292 million.

The most profitable fish was sea bass, of which 21,300 tonnes were produced, netting €120 million, with sea bream and turbot on €94.8 million and €56.8 million respectively.

The figures, released by the European Market Observatory for Fisheries and Aquaculture, show production is back to 2009 levels.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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