Diet & Food

Fish sticks will soon be significantly expensive, inter alia because of Trump

They are rectangular, with a crispy breading coated, and continues to be popular in German kitchens: fish sticks. But the finished product out of the freezer may soon be much more expensive. One of the reasons Donald Trump is.

Pack on and off in the pan – fish sticks prepared is verily no art. This is exactly why this finished product is perhaps one of the most popular fish products of the Germans.

Although fish will prepared according to the fish information zentrumd (FIZ) in Germany increasingly rare at home, but nevertheless, the Per-head increase-consumption. In the past year, from 14.1 to 14.4 kilograms per Person, estimates the FIZ. This had to do especially with out-of-home consumption in Restaurants and snack bars, so FIZ-Chairman René Stahlhofen.

Alaska Pollock is the most popular fish in Germany

The most popular one in Germany, fish the Alaska Pollock, the fish is processed into fish sticks to salmon and tuna. According to FIZ, whose imports had increased prices in the last year by 28 percent. A further increase was to be expected because of Donald Trump, The American President wants to make in Alaska, occurring Dorschart an integral part of the American school kitchens.

We would add that in China, the demand for cold water fish increases, but the supply is not increasing. Bad news sticks for all fish-lovers: you have to expect that this cheap product is significantly more expensive.

Currently, the prices for fish sticks depending on the manufacturer, between 4.42 euros and 7,63 Euro per kilogram.

Consumers mainly buy in the discount stores

Consumers buy their fish mostly at discount stores (48 percent) or in Super – and hypermarkets (40 percent). The classic fish specialist business, with a share of 4.5 per cent, only a minor role. Under the Federal States of Hamburg and buy a year of 6.5 kilograms of the fish for consumption at home, followed by the Schleswig-Holsteiners with 6.1 kilograms, and the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, with a total of 5.5 kilograms. On the lower places of the consumers are to be found in the Saarland, Rhineland-Palatinate and Baden-Württemberg.

With Material from dpa