The EU is the world’s largest importer of fish and seafood by a huge margin. According to the FAO, in 2009 while Japan and the US each imported USD13bn dollars worth of fishery products, the figure for the EU was US39.5bn. Imports into the EU increased from 9bn tonnes in 2008 to 11bn tonnes in 2009. The Organisation for Danish Aquaculture has analysed the trends in imports of fish from Turkey, and pangasius from Viet Nam into the EU-27 over the period 2005 to 2009, based on data from Eurostat. Looking at European imports of fresh and frozen sea bass and sea bream from Turkey the data shows that imports peaked at about 16,000 tonnes in 2007 but then fell back to just over 14,000 tonnes in 2008 and 2009. Smoked trout imports have stayed stable at about 2000 tonnes from 2007 to 2009, while imports of frozen trout larger than 1 kg hovered around 2,000 tonnes up to 2008 but then jumped to about 5,000 t. Prices of all three products have stayed broadly stable over the period, with a slight increase for smoked trout and a slight decline for seabass and seabream.