Agroinform: Christmas fish won’t be more expensive this year either

By: STA Date: 2025. 11. 20. 11:00

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The drought that has been going on since winter has posed a significant challenge for fish farmers, who are nevertheless closing out an average year overall. Producers are not planning a price increase this year, so if retail chains apply last year’s margins, families will be able to get their holiday fish at last year’s price levels this year as well – Agroinform.hu told MTI on Thursday.

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According to the announcement, live carp will cost around 2,000 forints per kilogram, and sliced carp around 4,000 forints at the end of the year; African catfish filleted will cost 4,500, while gray catfish will cost around 8,000 forints. As they wrote, fish will be present on the Christmas table of 80 percent of the population this year as well, thanks to which 35-40 percent of the annual domestic fish consumption will be concentrated on Christmas. They also mentioned that according to a survey conducted among Agroinform.hu readers earlier, fish is on the Christmas table in 80 percent of families: at this time, 85 percent of fish consumers process carp, but 32 percent also buy catfish for the Christmas menu.

African catfish is also popular at this time (13 percent), and busa and salmon (11-11 percent) are also sold well

Fish soup is mainly made from fish – in 81 percent of cases – but fried fish is also very popular (65 percent), while grilled or grilled fish is eaten by 15 percent of families at Christmas. Domestic fish consumption, at 6.5-7 kilograms per person per year, is less than a third of the EU average, and moreover, only a quarter of this quantity is produced in domestic lakes, the rest are imported products from abroad, mostly from the seas – they announced.

MTI