Sea Frozen for Optimum Freshness

FASFA is the Frozen at Sea Fillets Association, a trade organisation representing trawler owners and distributors of frozen at sea (FAS) filleted fish from Norway, Iceland, Faroe Islands, Spain, Russia, Greenland and the UK. FASFA was formed in September 2000 and has worked to improve the understanding of frozen at sea fish with the consumer and trade markets by promoting environmental, quality and healthy eating messages.

FASFA and its members promote a message of quality with regards to frozen at sea fillets and to highlight the general health benefits of eating fish. FASFA also ensures all its members fish in the well managed waters of the North Atlantic and Barents Sea to preserve the sustainability of future fishing stocks.

Frozen at sea filleted fish and the careful management of the North Atlantic and Barents Sea are vital to British interests because frozen cod and haddock fillets are now used by 98% of UK Fish & Chip shops.

What is Fasfa?

Fasfa is the Frozen at Sea Fillets Association and was formed in 2000 to improve awareness of the excellent sustainability criteria and very high quality of frozen at sea fillets of cod and haddock.

For a quick tour of the filleting & freezing at sea process on board the Granit IV, please click here.
Who are Fasfa members?

Members of Fasfa are those international fishing companies that have both quota to catch cod & haddock in the North Atlantic and fishing vessels equipped to fillet and freeze their catch at sea. Other members are those businesses which further process and distribute frozen fillets to fish & chip shops restaurants and retailers in the UK.

For details of current members, click here.
Who uses Fasfa fish?

Virtually all fish & chip shops in the UK depend on frozen at sea (FAS) fillets for some time during the year and over 95% will use FAS fillets exclusively for all the cod and haddock they sell. FAS fish guarantees freshness, being frozen within hours of the fish being caught, as well as the certainty that it has been caught within scientifically proven criteria for sustainability, so you really can eat cod with a clear conscience.

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Sea Frozen for Optimum Freshness

What is Fasfa?

Who are Fasfa members?

Who uses Fasfa fish?

Fins are looking up as chippy saves cod

Cooking up cod with a clear conscience by Jason Ho...

The Guardian GREEN magazine, “Where’s the catc...