Traditional fish exports of Peru grow 173.3% in the first half of 2021

Published 2021년 9월 6일

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In the first half of 2021, Peru's fishery exports experienced a significant rebound, with traditional exports reaching $1.32 billion, a 173.3% increase from the previous year, and non-traditional exports bringing in $815 million, a 66% increase. The pandemic's impact was evident in the previous year, with traditional exports falling by 56.8% and non-traditional exports by 39.5%. China emerged as the leading market for both traditional and non-traditional exports, followed by Canada, Japan, Belgium, and Denmark for traditional exports, and the United States, Spain, South Korea, and Japan for non-traditional exports. Notable increases were seen in the exports of fishmeal, fish liver oil, frozen fish, and other products. Overall, Peru's traditional exports surged by 50.70% to $17,229 million, and non-traditional exports rose by 38.9% to $7,116 million compared to the same period in the previous year.

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China was the main destination for our fishery products with 988 million dollars, 74.9% of the total exported in the first half of 2021. The country's traditional fishing exports totaled 1.32 billion dollars between January and June of this year, an amount higher by 173.3% more than the 483 million dollars in the same period of 2020, indicated the Peruvian Foreign Trade Society (Comex Peru). He referred that due to the repercussions of Covid-19, during the first semester of 2020, the subsector's exports fell by 56.8% compared to the same period in 2019. On the side of non-traditional fish exports, these added shipments to the world for a total of 815 million dollars in the first half of 2021, which represented an increase of 66% compared to the same period of 2020. He also indicated that in the first semester of 2020, the subsector's exports showed a drop of 39.5%, after three consecutive years of growth during the analysis period. Comex Peru highlighted that the values reached by ...

Source: Pescaymedioambiente