"It's too clean" 🐟 Watch the reactions of these London fish traders on the day the new Billingsgate market opened in 1982. Billingsgate is the oldest fish market in London, dating back to the 1700s, and is the largest inland fish market in the UK, with an average of 25,000 tonnes of fish and fish products sold there every year. The market moved to its current site in Poplar, east London, in 1982, where it supplies fish to businesses, fishmongers, fish-and-chip shops, delicatessens and restauran