ANALYSIS OF FISH FOREIGN TRADE IN EUROPEAN UNION

Given the fact that at the level of European Union, in 2022, 5.317 thousand tons of fish and seafood were produced, result that this sector is one very important in European Union and deserve to be investigated. The present paper aims to portray the current situation regarding the fish foreign trade in European Union (between 2003 and 2022). For this purpose, a descriptive research method was used to present the picture of imports, exports and trade balance of fish among all countries of the European Union. Research findings have highlighted that 7 out of the total number of countries members of European Union present a positive trade balance of fish in 2022. For a better understanding of this market, a bibliometric analysis was made using VOSviewer software, based on Web of Science database, query that revealed 12.297 scientific documents that contains the term "fish market". We consider that our paper is useful and brings an important status about the situation of fish foreign trade in European Union especially because it continues the investigations on this field, taking into account that, querying Web of Science database only 62 results that include the term “analysis of fish foreign trade” were found.