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Landings in the first six months of 2010. (Photo: Subpesca)
Fisheries and aquaculture production fall
CHILE
Monday, August 02, 2010, 16:20 (GMT + 9)
Accumulated fish landings in June 2010 totalled 2.5 million tonnes, a figure 22.2 per cent lower than in the first half of 2009 when 3 million tonnes were landed.
According to the latest Report of the Fisheries and Aquaculture Sector from the Fisheries Subsecretariat (Subpesca), the fishing sector contributed 2.2 million tonnes between January and June 2010, while aquaculture reached 313,000 tonnes.
69.3 per cent of landings in the fishing sector were composed of pelagic resources, a smaller percentage than a year earlier, when it was 74.1 per cent.
Landings of anchovy, sardine and jack mackerel constituted respectively 23.4 per cent, 20.3 per cent and 17 per cent of the landing from the fisheries sector accumulated until June 2010.
These landings were concentrated in regions V and X, which together received 799,000 tonnes, or 57.6 per cent of the total.
Behind these regions were located regions XV and II, where landings totalled 510,200 tonnes (36.8 per cent), and regions III and IV, which accounted for 5.6 per cent of landings, or 77,600 tonnes.
As far as catches of demersal fisheries were concerned, up until June 2010, 9,670 tonnes of hake had been landed, 15.1 per cent more than in the same period of 2009 (8,400 tonnes).
The main contribution came from the artisanal fleet, with 5,400 tonnes, while industrial vessels landed 4,200 tonnes.
Subpesca also reported that the landings of hake accumulated up to June of this year totalled 24,400 tonnes, representing a drop of 5.8 per cent compared to the same period in 2009 (25,900 tonnes).
Toothfish landings were 1,830 tonnes in June 2010, a figure 6.9 per cent lower than in the first six months of 2009 (1,960 tonnes).
Between January and June of this year 1,100 tonnes of golden kingclip were landed, compared to 850 tonnes in the same period last year, an increase of 29.3 per cent.
Meanwhile, the National Fisheries Service (SERNAPESCA) reported that aquaculture production totalled 277,000 tonnes in the first five months of this year, a figure which represents a decrease of 27.5 per cent compared to the same period in 2009 when 382,000 tonnes were harvested.
The main resources produced nationally were mussels, rainbow trout and Atlantic salmon, which accounted for 59 per cent, 18 per cent and 14 per cent of the total harvest respectively.
Regions X and XI generated most of the harvest: a total of 217,100 tonnes and 46,600 tonnes respectively.
The mussel harvests accumulated through May totalled 163,400 tonnes, 48.5 per cent more than the same period of 2009 (110,000 tonnes). All of the harvest came from the X region.
The harvest of rainbow trout totalled 50,000 tons, 37.4 per cent less than the cumulative volume between January and May 2009 (79,900 tonnes). The highest production was registered in Regions X (34,500 tonnes) and XI (14,500 tonnes).
Meanwhile, the Atlantic salmon harvest totalled 38,600 tonnes up to May 2010, 68.7 per cent less than the amount accumulated in the same period in 2009 (123,200 tonnes). Most of the production came from Regions XI (29,500 tonnes) and XII (5,500 tonnes).
By Analia Murias
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