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Tuna landing in a Peruvian port.
Exports of fish for human consumption grow in 2018, after three years of decline
(PERU, 2/13/2019)
Peru's exports of fishery products for human consumption (CHD) reached a value of USD 1,339 million in 2018. This figure indicates a growth of 27.9 percent with respect to the previous year, and represents a record in the subsector shipments, reported the Management of Services and Extractive Industries of the Association of Exporters (ADEX).
Fish processing plant processing small pelagic
Henry Quiroz, president of the ADEX Fisheries and Aquaculture Committee, emphasized that the CHD fisheries subsector closed in blue last year after decreasing several years. After reaching its highest figure in 2014, of USD 1,555.8 million, the amounts were lower: USD 921.4 million in 2015, USD 900.5 million in 2016 and USD 1,047.5 million in 2017.
"This growth was for pota (giant squid), which after suffering a fall in its catch (2016 and 2017), recovered last year, surpassing the historical figure in the export of this species," he said.
According to the ADEX Data Trade Intelligence System, the giant squid represented 47.6 percent of the total exported. It was shipped for USD 637.8 million, a figure that indicates a growth of 58.4 percent due to its greater shipments to Spain, China and South Korea (frozen squid).
"The perspective for 2019 is to consolidate that sector and that the figure averages USD 1,350 million of exports," he said.
Quiroz believes that shrimp, scallops and trout production should be strengthened, while fisheries sector should consolidate species such as squid, dolphinfish and tuna. In addition, he considers it fundamental that Peru be positioned as a tuna country.
According to ADEX, another important species in 2018 was the dolphinfish (frozen and fresh), with an increase of 8.6 percent and the US as its main market. Other exports included anchovies (increase of 19.3 percent), tuna (28 percent), flying fish eggs (31.7 percent), hake (-7.1 percent), eel, jack mackerel and mackerel.
Giant Squid pre-washing for processing.
Aquaculture exports were worth USD 268.8 million last year, an increase of 10 perrcent year-on-year. The main product, shrimp, contracted by 3.8 percent (the US, Spain and Vietnam were its main markets), while other species had a better performance.
It was the case of the scallops (USD 74 million), with a growth of 39.5 percent and France, Spain, the Netherlands, the US and Belgium, among the main destinations; tilapia (40.4 percent), trout (35.2 percent) and paiche (5.1 percent).
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