Argentine fish exports continue to fall

The report prepared by Fabián Pettigrew for CAPECA shows a decline of 9.5% both in volume exported and in foreign currency income. In the ten months that have elapsed, 1,568 million dollars entered and 408,233 tons of fish products were sold. On the other hand, the comparative figures for the month of October in 2021 and 2022 according to data recently published by INDEC, show a 30% drop for fishing products; in unprocessed fish and shellfish the drop was 36.8% and in the accumulated ten months, for these primary products the drop was 11.8%. The greatest impact has been felt by the tangonero sector, being more marked for the whole shrimp since the fall in demand was accompanied by a constant drop in the price that has not yet ended, but it has also been felt in the shrimp tails that they had a reduction in demand in all markets. For hubbsi hake there are ups and downs, depending on the type of presentation, while the positive figures were provided by squid and toothfish, allowing ...