The famous Billingsgate market is the oldest fish market in the world. Its history is traced back to very early times and records show that fish was sold there more than one thousand years ago. Last year a total of nearly 200,000 tons of fish was handled at Billingsgate.
Toyosu Market, Tokyo, Japan, the world's largest fish market, replacing the former Tsukiji Market, have at least the same capacity but in up-to-date infrastructure. ...
La Nueva Viga Market, Mexico City, Mexico; the world's second largest fish market.
Billingsgate Wharf, close to Lower Thames Street, became the centre of a fish market during the 16th and 17th centuries but did not become formally established until the Billingsgate, etc. Act 1698 (10 Will. 3. c.
Even though Tsukiji inner market has moved to Toyosu, the outer market remains, selling food and other goods. The former market was used temporarily as a hub for transport vehicles during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Tsukiji Fish Market is the most famous Tokyo fish market. Even though the main fish market for suppliers and buyers has now moved to Toyosu, Tsukiji remains the most famous fish market in Tokyo.
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Why are they shutting the billingsgate market?
Jason Holland. Billingsgate fish market – which is the oldest fish market in the U.K. capital of London and what was once the world's largest fish market – is set to close in 2028 after the City of London Corporation recently decided to withdraw its support.
According to an analysis by the California Academy of Sciences, the Steinhart Aquarium's beloved Australian lungfish named Methuselah is estimated to be about 92 years old, with a high-estimate of over 100.
The world's largest stock exchange by total market capitalization is the NYSE, which is owned by Intercontinental Exchange, with $31.7 trillion in shares listed on its exchange, as of May 2025. Not far behind is Nasdaq, which has $29.9 trillion in market cap listed.
Archaeological evidence suggests that Colchester is England's oldest recorded market town, dating to at least the time of the Roman occupation of Britain's southern regions. Another ancient market town is Cirencester, which held a market in late Roman Britain.
Istanbul's Grand Bazaar, the world's largest and oldest covered market, has 61 covered streets and 4,000 shops. It was founded in 1455 and attracts ~325,000 visitors each day.
By value salmon is the largest single fish commodity in the world and by volume or weight it is tuna. Regionally, in the European Union, tuna, cod, salmon, Alaska pollock and shrimps account for around 44% of the total volume consumed.
The corporation decided in a separate vote last November to permanently close Smithfield and Billingsgate when it pulled the plug on a planned £740m relocation to a new site in the east of the capital at Dagenham, blaming rising costs.
The Common Council's approval of the regeneration programme confirms the City's decision taken in November to close the two food markets, which have operated under its ownership in the capital from various locations for centuries, and to abandon the idea of moving them to the 42-acre Dagenham site on the north bank of ...
Billingsgate's site near Canary Wharf is set to be transformed into some 4,000 new homes; meanwhile, Smithfield is set to be regenerated into a “cultural and commercial hub” to accompany the new London Museum, set to open next year in a once-abandoned section of the market.
Billingsgate Market is open Tuesdays to Saturdays, from 5am to 8.30am. On Sundays, only the shellfish market is open from 6am to 8am. The market is closed on Mondays and bank holidays, except Good Friday.
