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Annual domestic fish stocks can satisfy demand for about **3 days a year, think tank the New Economics Foundation said.

This leaves the UK reliant on imported fish, such as haddock and cod, with at least one in three fish consumed in the UK imported from outside the EU.

The NEF said demand could be met with better managed seas. Ministers cited the UK's call for sustainable fishing.

The UK imports more than **1,**0 tonnes of cod, worth £**2m, and *0,**0 tonnes of haddock, worth £**6m, in a year, the majority of which comes from outside the EU, according to figures from ***0.

The situation has improved since last year, when the UK effectively ran out of fish more than a month earlier than in ***2, but is largely unchanged over the past decade.

The report says UK fish stocks would run out on *1 August but points out that Spain, France, Germany and Italy all used up their own supplies earlier in the year.

'Net importer'

Rupert Crilly, of the NEF, said the UK had access to productive fishing grounds and had moderate levels of consumption compared to some other European countries, such as Spain and Portugal.