Brazilian fisheries export revenue increased 49% in nine months of 2022

Brazilian fisheries exports experienced a 49% revenue increase during the first nine months of this year, compared to the same period in 2021. However, according to the Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) in the 3rd quarter, revenue actually dropped 17%. The Empraba’s bulletin points out that the downward movement can be explained by the greater supply of tilapia fillets to the domestic market, reducing the availability of foreign sales volume. Frozen tilapia fillets remain the most exported product from Brazilian fisheries. Let us not forget that 2022 was an electoral year and the Brazilian population received direct money handouts plus other forms of subsidies to help boost domestic demand, ...and hopefully ballots. Furthermore, Brazil despite thousands of miles of coast line has a very incipient organized fisheries industry since most of it is artisanal and coastal supplying the domestic market. The only really organized branch is aquaculture and thus tilapia farms. So ...