What fishers were paid for a tonne of fish last month.
August 2026 · Herring · first-sale price
£877 /tonne
18,693 tonnes landed, worth £16.40m
Up 32% on August 2025 (+32%)
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Price is what fishers were paid at first sale, before any processing or markup. It is published for the UK as a whole and never by port.
Ranked by //
44 species
Where this comes from
The Marine Management Organisation publishes landings by species every month, with a price per tonne. It is the only first-sale price the UK publishes.
August 2026 in total
41,335 tonnes landed into UK ports, worth £72.25m across 44 species.
What this is not
Not a retail price, and not a price at any one port. It is what the catch fetched at first sale, nationally, before anyone processed or transported it.