TIRANA, June 28 /ATA/ – Catches in marine and other aquatic fish grew to 15.011 tonnes in 2019 from 14.875 tonnes in 2018, slightly increasing by 0.91 % the National Institute of Statistics, INSTAT, said on Thursday.
Fishing water categories are: marine, brackish waters, lagoons, inland waters, aquaculture and molluscs.
Two main categories represent the biggest percentage of fish catches, respectively marine” fishing with 36.64 % and “aquaculture” with 34.83 % followed by inland waters with 18.46 % of the total catches.
In 2019, the category “Inland waters” faced the largest increase, by 14.20 % compared to the previous year, followed by the catches of the category of “Coastal line” by 8.56 % and “Aquaculture” by 1.77 %.
The aquatic category “Coastal lagoons”, marked a decrease compared to a year ago, about 73.25 %, followed by the category “Molluscs” with 2.98 %.
In 2019, the species that has resulted in the largest percentage in catches from marine, coastal line and coastal lagoon water is the “European anchovy” with 20.67 % to total catches, followed by the Deepwater rose shrimp” with 16.21 % and “European hake” with 12.32 %. Regarding catches in inland waters, the “Common carp” faced the largest percentage with 23.52 %, followed by the “Roaches nei” with 19.41 % and the species ”Crucian carp” with 18.87 %.
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