The State Fisheries Agency of Ukraine has reported a total industrial catch of fish and aquatic bioresources amounting to 5.8 thousand tons from January to June 2021. This marks a significant increase in catch from the same period in the previous year, with the Sea of Azov seeing a 26% increase in catch and the Danube and Dnieper-Bug estuary systems experiencing increases of 72% and 14% respectively. The Black Sea also saw a 4% increase in catch. Additionally, the agency reported that vessels under the Ukrainian state flag extracted 22.1 thousand tons of krill from the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) area, marking a 7% increase from the same period in the previous year. Preliminary data also indicates a catch of 1,050 tons of marketable aquaculture products and 1.4 thousand tons of aquatic bioresources from special commodity fisheries in Ukraine.