The most popular fish is cod
which comes from well managed fisheries
around Norway, Iceland and the Barents Sea.

· 1 out of every 3 British potatoes are made into chips - that's approximately 2 million tonnes every year.

· If you laid all the British potatoes that are turned into chips each year end- to-end they would stretch to the moon and back!

· 8 out of 10 households buy frozen chips each year, so most of us have a bag in the freezer!

· Each 1kg bag of oven chips is, on average, made from a weighty 16 medium-sized potatoes.

· A staggering 255 million portions of fish and chips are sold each year.

· The fish and chip shop market is worth £1.2bn, that means £1 of every £100 spent on food is spent in a fish and chip shop.

· Top of the takeaways! Fish and chips remain the nation's favourite, outselling Indian food at a rate of 2:1.

· Given the popularity of the classic British dish, it's no surprise that across the UK, there are over 10,000 fish and chip shops!

· 10% of the entire British potato crop is needed to supply all the fish and chip shops.

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