French appetite for Irish seafood holding up well, reports Bord Bia

Stable sales of Irish seafood to the French market feature prominently in the positive findings of Bord Bia research.

It also reported a growing demand in France for halal products, foods that are permissible for Muslims to eat or drink under Islamic sharia law.

Finnian O’Luasa, of Bord Bia’s Paris office, said France’s consumption of 443,509 tonnes of seafood amounts to 9% of the 4.8m tonnes caught annually by the EU’s 28 member states.