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Seafood

Seafood - a commodity the UK buys and sells in huge quantities. Surprisingly, the fish caught off British shores is largely dispatched abroad as exports, whereas the fish we eat here tends to be imported. Ed is at Heathrow Airport, a crucial link in Britain's seafood supply chain. He sees how crates of seafood are transported beneath the feet of long-haul passengers, in cargo holds... And how this dual purposing of flights allows the Scottish salmon industry to export nearly a quarter of a billion pounds worth of salmon a year to far flung places like the USA and China. Ed also goes behind the scenes of the airport operations centre to witness how delays can affect Britain’s seafood supply chain. Cherry is in the Scottish Highlands to uncover why the world is so fond of salmon farmed in its beautiful landscape and Ade travels to Iceland to catch one of Britain’s favourite fish - cod.

English
  • Originally Aired October 7, 2019
  • Runtime 60 minutes
  • Content Rating United States of America TV-G
  • Network BBC Two
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