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For immediate release, June 15, 2026. Seafish sets out sharpened focus in Annual Plan for 2026-27 Seafish is sharpening its focus to deliver greater impact for the UK seafood industry, says its new Chief Executive Colin Faulkner. Speaking five months into his new post to launch Seafish’s Annual Plan for 2026–2027, Colin described how the organisation has refocused its activities into three areas: a safe and skilled workforce; smoother and expanding seafood trade; and a resilient supply chain. Colin said: “Our annual plan comes at an important point for Seafish and at a time of significant change for seafood sectors across the UK. "Our Plan set outs how we’re focusing our activities to deliver greater impact, with our work now centred around three strategic outcomes - a safe and skilled workforce; smoother and expanding seafood trade; and a resilient supply chain. "These are the areas where we believe we can make the most difference. “We will help seafood businesses in all parts of the UK navigate current challenges and be ready for the future through providing trusted insight, practical support and stronger partnership. "We will do this with humility, engaging openly, listening carefully and working in partnership with industry, governments and others to shape our priorities and how we deliver them - working together to support a resilient future for UK seafood.” The three strategic outcomes are designed to support the success of the UK seafood sectors at home and around the world. A safe and skilled workforce: Seafish will support a safer, more skilled and future-ready seafood workforce by improving safety, strengthening training and helping businesses build the skills needed in a modern seafood industry. Smoother and expanding seafood trade: Seafish will help UK seafood businesses navigate trade complexity, reduce barriers and access markets more smoothly, while supporting growth opportunities at in the UK and internationally. Resilient supply chain: Seafish will assist the seafood industry’ responses to economic, environmental and market pressures by strengthening resilience, improving transparency and supporting long-term confidence across the supply chain. Seafish is also strengthening its activities in data and insight and innovation, stakeholder engagement and organisational services, which underpin successful delivery across all three outcomes. The full Seafish Annual Plan can be found online at: Seafish Annual Plan 2026/27: Delivering Impact Together | Seafish. Seafish welcomes any feedback from our industry stakeholders about the activities set out in the Plan and they support required by the seafood sectors – they can email seafish@seafish.co.uk. ENDS Press office contact: scott.inglis@seafish.co.uk NOTES TO EDITORS About Seafish
Seafish is here to give the UK seafood sectors the support they need to be successful today and be resilient to future change. We’re a non-departmental public body (NDPB) set up by the Fisheries Act 1981. Our sponsors are the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish devolved administrations. We are funded by a levy on the first sale of seafood in the UK. Using our unique, non-competitive position we work in partnership with businesses, governments and scientists to achieve positive impacts for the UK seafood sectors. We are focused on supporting three outcomes for the UK seafood sectors: - A safe and skilled workforce
- Smoother and expanding seafood trade
- A resilient supply chain
Visit our website www.seafish.org or follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. Thank you for your interest in this press release, please let us know if you have any further questions and we'll look to get those answered for you ASAP. Please also find attached a selection of photographs free to use with this release only. One picture is of Seafish CEO Colin Faulkner and the others are general seafood industry images. These can be saved by right clicking on the picture. More images are available on request. We also have available on request a short video of Colin introducing the new annual plan which we can sent you.
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