What data actually exists about this industry, who typically holds it, at what granularity, and how obtainable it is. Public means openly published; purchasable is sold by a vendor; partnership needs a bilateral deal; exclusive is effectively locked up by one party.
| Data category | Who holds it | Granularity | Access |
|---|---|---|---|
| pricing | Retail price collection by national statistics offices for CPI, EU Fish Price Observatory (EUMOFA), wholesale fish markets (Rungis… | Per species per grade, weekly or daily; CPI as monthly national index; scraped… | public |
| registry/licensing/permits | National/local food business registration authorities (UK local authorities via FSA, EU competent authorities), company registries, EU… | Per establishment, with registration/approval status and date | public |
| employment & workforce | National statistics offices (structural business statistics, labour force survey by NACE class), payroll providers, sector wage boards | Annual per NACE class per region; per-employee at firm level (not public) | public |
| financial filings | National company registries (Companies House, Handelsregister, INPI), credit bureaus (Creditsafe, Bureau van Dijk Orbis) | Annual accounts per legal entity; sector aggregates per NACE class | public |
| incident/safety/claims | Food safety authorities (RASFF alerts, FSA/FDA recalls), local authority hygiene inspection records, foodborne illness surveillance… | Per notification/recall event; per inspection per premises | public |
| quality & compliance testing | Official food control laboratories and authorities (heavy metals, histamine, Listeria sampling), species-substitution DNA studies by… | Per sample per premises/product; certification status per site | public |
| transactional/sales | Fishmonger POS systems (Lightspeed, Square, Epos Now), supermarket seafood counters' EPOS, market hall operators; aggregated panel data… | Per transaction / per SKU per store per day; panel data as weekly or monthly… | purchasable |
| geospatial/movement | POI and store-location datasets (OpenStreetMap, Google Places, SafeGraph/Advan, Foursquare), local authority market registers | Per store location; footfall visit estimates per site per day where mobility… | purchasable |
| reviews & sentiment | Google Maps, Yelp, TripAdvisor, Facebook, delivery marketplaces (Deliveroo, Just Eat) hosting fishmonger listings | Per review per store, timestamped; rating aggregates per store | purchasable |
| logistics & freight movement | Chilled distribution carriers, wholesale market logistics operators, customs/import declarations for seafood entering the country | Per delivery/consignment; customs data monthly by product code and origin | purchasable |
| customer demographics | Consumer panel providers (Kantar, NielsenIQ Homescan), loyalty card programmes of supermarket chains with fish counters, geodemographic… | Per household per purchase occasion; catchment profile per store | purchasable |
| inventory & supply chain | Retailers' ERP/stock systems, wholesalers and fish auction houses supplying shops, cold-chain distributors | Per SKU per store per day; per lot/consignment upstream | partnership |
| sensor/IoT | Refrigeration monitoring vendors (Testo, Sensitech, Monnit, Emerson) installed in display cabinets and cold rooms of fish retailers | Temperature reading per cabinet per few minutes, per site | partnership |
| energy consumption | Utilities and metering operators (smart meter data), energy-efficiency programmes for commercial refrigeration | Half-hourly per meter per site; annual benchmarks per floor-area for retail… | partnership |
| weather-dependent metrics | Retailers and demand-forecast vendors combining POS with meteorological services; fisheries agencies reporting landings disrupted by weather | Daily sales vs daily local weather per site | partnership |
| waste & emissions | Retailers' waste contractors, food-waste NGOs and reporting schemes (WRAP Courtauld, EU food waste reporting), municipal waste authorities… | Per collection per site; annual tonnage aggregates by sector | partnership |
| communications/marketing performance | Retailers' own e-commerce and social accounts, ad platforms (Meta, Google), seafood marketing bodies (Seafish, Norwegian Seafood Council)… | Per campaign per period; per post/listing | partnership |
Compiled by the TriData research system from public registers, industry structure and regulatory reporting obligations; refreshed as the underlying catalogue grows. Look up the code itself in the NACE code finder.