Fishermen in Germany recorded lower catch quotas in 2022. There are many reasons for this, but sales are still increasing.
German fishermen brought significantly less fish ashore last year than in the previous year. Overall, they came to 150,249 tons and thus 8 percent less than in the previous year, as reported by the Federal Office for Agriculture and Food (BLE) in their annual statistics on German deep sea and coastal fishing.
“Reduced catch quotas and fishing days as well as annual fluctuations due to environmental influences play a decisive role in the reasons for the decline in the amounts landed,” reports the authority.
Despite the falling catch figures, there was more turnover: the bottom line was that German fisheries received almost 190 million euros in the coffers, almost 16 percent more than in the previous year. The appetite of Germans for fish and seafood is currently decreasing significantly in view of the sharp rise in prices, as reported by the Fish Information Center last week.
The reduced catches are also noticeable in the German ports – this is also a long-lasting trend. According to the data, 21,487 tons of fish arrived in the fishing ports of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein and Bremen. That was 40 percent less than in the previous year. With the large remainder of almost 130,000 tons, German fishermen headed for foreign ports, mostly in the Netherlands (68 percent), Denmark (19 percent) and Morocco (7 percent).
Deep Sea and Coastal Fisheries 2022
Source: Stern
