Chilean fish exports total 3.8b in ten months

Chilean exports of fishery products and aquaculture in the first 10 months of 2012 reached USD 3.8 billion, 1 percent over the same period in 2011. But the volume of exports increased 11.3 percent, according to the latest stats from Chile’s Fisheries and Aquaculture Under-Secretariat (Subpesca).

Sales of frozen products and fishmeal were the most significant representing 48.9 percent and 24.1 percent of the total volume. This was followed by frozen products, 11.7 percent and fish oil, 6.1 percent.

Subpesca stats show the main export item was Atlantic salmon, with 1.2 billion dollars, 31.6 percent of the total value of exports. This was followed by rainbow trout, Pacific salmon and boneless pelagic fish, among others.

Chilean products were sent to 107 countries, of which nine concentrated 79.4 percent, among which Japan, U.S., Brazil, China and Spain.

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