Some Smokin’ Scottish Salmon Stats
British Smoked Salmon Company letterhead, before the name was changed. Image by Courtesy of Ondine Sherwood
When Jews brought smoked salmon to the U.K., they could never have imagined the extent to which it would catch on.
$1.2 billion: Worldwide retail value of Scottish-farmed salmon
1 million: Smoked salmon meals eaten in the U.K. every week
50+: Number of countries that imported fresh Scottish salmon in 2015
5,000: Scottish jobs reliant on the aquaculture industry
Source: Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation
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Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman is director of international communications for a leading Israeli think tank and an American-Israeli journalist since 1995. She raises her large, blended family a bus ride from the Western Wall. Follow her on Twitter, @maayanjaffe.
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