The consumption of aquatic foods in Europe is high . In recent decades, a quaculture has gained significant importance as a domestic source of seafood, primarily due to the dwindling availability of wild fish stocks and the escalating demand for seafood. This demand is currently being met not only through domestic aquaculture but also through imports. This study investigates the environmental, economic, and social sustainability of 14 European aquaculture industries in 12 countries representing about 69% of total European aquaculture production using the Aquaculture Performance Indicators (API). We find that the average scores in Europe are higher than global average scores in all dimensions, as should be expected given that European countries are developed economies with comprehensive environmental and food regulation in place. There are significant differences between industry segments (marine cage culture, shellfish farming and land based pond farming). Our analysis also reveals that the sustainability pillars in Europe have positive (but not significant) correlations for the impacts on communities and environment; communities and economics; but negative (but not significant) correlations for the impacts on environment and economics when mussels are considered, and positive correlations when they are not. It is also of interest that the correlations are much weaker than for the global averages, suggesting that good governance is less beneficial with respect to sustainability performance. This may of course be due to the high scores in all pillars.