Morocco: Fishing money and business, unloaded quantities increased by 14 percent at the end of May

The National Fishing Office reported that the discharged quantities of marketed products from coastal and traditional fishing recorded an increase of 14 percent to 472,808 tons during the first five months of this year. The National Fisheries Office indicated, in a report on coastal and traditional fishing statistics in Morocco, that the value of these discharged quantities exceeded 4.16 billion dirhams, an increase of 14 percent compared to the end of May 2021. By species, the value of discharged increased from crustaceans (31 percent to 3,435 tons), pelagic fish (19 percent to 396,011 tons), molluscs (4 percent to 35,540 tons), and white fish (2% to 33,326 tons). In contrast, the discharged quantities of algae and oysters decreased by 61 percent and 22 percent, respectively. With regard to ports, a total of 8,519 tons of coastal and traditional fishing products were unloaded in Mediterranean ports until the ...