Consumers splashed out on seafood at Christmas with sales up 4.4 per cent compared with 2016, according to new market analysis from Seafish, the UK industry authority on seafood.

Across the UK, shoppers spent more than £171 million on over 14,800 tonnes of seafood during the two weeks to December 30, 2017, compared with £164 million in 2016 and £149 million in 2015.