There is no denying that seafood plays a huge part in Australian eating culture. Whether it's peeling prawns around the Christmas table, slurping back oysters at a restaurant, or just cooking up a fresh fish fillet for dinner, we love our seafood.
Australians love their red meat and poultry but seafood is fast catching up in terms of popularity and has always been an important part of Australian culture and diet. About 334 kt of seafood was consumed in Australia in 2019-2020, which equated to about 12.4 kg per person.
While the Australian Dietary Guidelines and Heart Foundation advise eating two fish-based meals per week, according to the last National Dietary Survey, only one in four Australians reported eating fish at least once a week.
Seafood forms a significant part of the Australian diet. We eat around 15 kg of seafood per person every year and our appetite is growing.
Asia is the primary consumer of fish, as it consumes 72% of the total global fish production. Maldives, located in South Asia, is the country with the highest fish consumption per capita as of 2020. Countries like Kiribati, Macao, and Hong Kong are also among the top 5 consumers of fish per capita in the world.
Afghanistan, Ethiopia and Tajikistan only have a fish consumption of less than 1 kilogram per year. Image: Statista. What is the World Economic Forum doing to help ensure global food security?
Not surprisingly, the lowest seafood consumption can be found in landlocked countries: Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Ethiopia and Mongolia all consume less than 1 kg of seafood per capita per year.
Part of a barramundi gang widely known as the 'Million Dollar Fish Red-Tag Crew', authorities are calling on anglers around the country to help locate the head fishy fugitive, known as the Season 7 Million Dollar Fish.
Australians consumed around 356,000 tonnes of seafood in 2020–21, which is equivalent to 13.9 kilograms per person. This is up 1.5 kilograms per person from 12.4 kilograms per person in 2019-20, and down from a high of 15.5 in 2003-4.
In Australia today, there are an estimated 4000 fish and chip shops, as well as fish and chips being an essential menu offering in many Australian pubs and restaurants.
"What's happening is we as an industry are no longer able to meet public demand for fresh fish." Australia currently imports 70 per cent of the seafood consumed nationally, however Mr Hockey said the industry had noticed a change in consumer behaviour towards wanting to buy more locally caught seafood.
In Australia, 42 percent of people are eating less meat or none at all in 2019.
And it is still true: we don't eat as much fish as most Europeans. Historians suggest that this dates from the Reformation, when rules about fasting were overturned and fish was stigmatised as 'popish flesh'. But the protestant north of Germany has traditionally eaten more fish than the Catholic south.
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all Australians aim to include 2–3 servings of fish (including oily fish) per week which provides about 250–500 milligrams of marine-sourced omega-3s, eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), per day.
“For most individuals it's fine to eat fish every day,” says Eric Rimm, professor of epidemiology and nutrition, in an August 30, 2015 article on Today.com, adding that “it's certainly better to eat fish every day than to eat beef every day.”
Australia has made limited progress in restoring fish stocks to sustainable levels, a report says. Australia is overfishing by more than a third and has made "limited progress" in restoring its fish stocks to sustainable levels, an international study has found.
It has been estimated that 62 per cent of the edible seafood Australians consume (by weight) is imported, predominantly from Asia. New Zealand and Norway are also important sources of seafood imports to Australia.
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Turkey leads the list with an astounding 199.6 kg of bread consumed per capita, and its diverse bread repertoire includes pide (Turkish flatbread) and simit (sesame-covered bread rings).
The countries with the highest volumes of poultry consumption in 2019 were: China (20 million tonnes), the US (19 million tonnes) and.