South Korea: Last year's fishery production increased by 1.9%

[Sejong = Newspim] Reporter Dong-Hoon Lee = Corona 19 Even in the global pandemic, domestic offshore fishery production has increased last year. According to the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries on the 7th, the total production of offshore fisheries in 2020 was 932,000 tons. This is a 1.9% increase from the previous year's catch of 915,000 tons in 2019. Production by major fish species is 217,000 tonnes of anchovy, 77,000 tonnes of mackerel, 66,000 tonnes of blackfish, 57,000 tonnes of squid, 46,000 tonnes of horse mackerel, 41,000 tonnes of reference machine, 33,000 tonnes of mackerel. Etc. Looking at the trend of increase and decrease by fish species, reference numbers increased the most at 59.4%. Subsequently, it was surveyed as ▲ brown fish (51.2%↑) ▲ anchovy (26.3%↑) ▲ blue crab (25.3%↑) ▲ flounder (20.6%↑), whereas squid, horse mackerel, red snow crab, mackerel, and herring were the same as the previous year. ▲ Mackerel (23.5%↓) ▲Malke (27.1%↓) production decreased. As the ...