Salmon voted Brit's number one fish dish

1st September 2009, 11:26am

Salmon has been voted Britain's favourite fish dish, according to Seafish, the authority on Seafood in the UK.

Salmon's popularity has rocketed over the years thanks to a huge increase in the farmed variety. Tuna comes in at number two, followed by cod in third position and haddock in fourth.

Meanwhile prawns take the fifth and sixth spots as the cold water and warm water species are increasingly used as a healthy meat substitute in curries and pasta dishes, and a blast from the past comes in at number seven – mackerel, followed by pollack in at number eight.

And traditional pub favourite scampi is in at number nine with freshwater trout completing the top 10.

Karen Galloway, market insight manager at Seafish, said:  "The top ten also shows Britons prefer mild tasting traditional favourites. Fish is a tasty and healthy protein and we should copy our European neighbours and make the most of the wide variety of seafood on offer in the UK."

A recent survey undertaken by Seafish revealed that more than eight out of ten Britons – 83% – described seafood as healthy but only about one third manage to eat the recommended two portions of fish a week.

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