REUTERS
The Asian market accounted for 96% of Ukraine's fresh fish shipments abroad.
The State Agency of Fisheries of Ukraine says Ukrainian enterprises in January-November 2019 boosted fresh fish exports by 39% in monetary terms year-over-year (y-o-y), up to US$383,800.
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At the same time, the market of Asian countries accounted for 96% of all supplies of Ukrainian fresh fish in monetary terms (US$369,300), while the major buyers were Iraq (109.5 tonnes worth US$185,000) and Turkey (43 tonnes worth US$183,000), the agency's press service said on January 23, referring to the State Statistics Service.
Over the period under review, Ukrainian enterprises shipped 155,200 tonnes of fresh and chilled fish abroad: carp (almost 110 tonnes worth US$186,000), turbots (42.6 tonnes worth US$180,500), and the Sparidae or sea breams (1.4 tonnes worth US$7,800).
As UNIAN reported earlier, commercial fish and seafood catch in Ukraine in 2018 grew by 2.2% against 2018, to 51,000 tonnes.