date:Nov 14, 2012
ghly concentrated in two areas Grampian in the northeast of Scotland and Humberside in the northeast of England. The report also showed that since 2010, the number of whitefish, pelagic fish, shellfish and exotic fish processing units has fallen by 15 percent from 384 to 325, while the number of full time equivalent (FTE) jobs have declined from 14,331 to 11,864, a reduction of 17 percent.
These figures are in sharp contrast to the shape of the industry in 2004, when there were 573 processing