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Oceans and fisheries

Fisheries and aquaculture production

The EU is the fifth largest fisheries and aquaculture producer worldwide, accounting for about 3% of global production. 78% of this production comes from fisheries and 22% from aquaculture.

Spain, Denmark and France and are the largest producers in terms of volume in the EU.

Main world producers (2019)
(catches and aquaculture)

(volume in 1000 tonnes live weight and percentage of total)

Country Catches Aquaculture Total production % Total
China 14 169 64 423 82 593 38.66%
Indonesia 7 524 15 893 23 418 10.96%
India 5 477 7 800 13 277 6.22%
Vietnam 3 429 4 455 7 884 3.69%
EU-28 4 824 1 366 6 191 2.90%
United States 4 803 490 5 293 2.48%
Russia 4 983 248 5 231 2.45%
Peru 4 851 153 5 005 2.34%
Philippines 2 056 2 358 4 414 2.07%
Bangladesh 1 895 2 488 4 384 2.05%
Japan 3 230 943 4 174 1.95%
Norway 2 472 1 453 3 925 1.84%
Chile 2 376 1 407 3 783 1.77%
South Korea 1 366 2 406 3 773 1.77%
Myanmar 1 951 1 082 3 033 1.42%
Thailand 1 542 964 2 506 1.17%
Others 26 563 8 167 34 731 16.26%
Total 93 519 120 103 213 623 100%

NB: FAO estimates for non-EU countries.
Source: Eumofa elaboration of Eurostat and FAO data.