China's fishery industry has maintained a sound development momentum since 2014
This website news Since 2014, fishery departments at all levels across the country have earnestly studied and deeply grasped the spirit of the State Council's national teleconference on modern fishery development, carried out implementation in light of local realities, seized the momentum, and opened up a new phase in modern fishery development. Statistics show that the first half of 2014 continued the sound momentum of fishery development since the “12th Five-Year Plan”.
Rapid growth of the fishery economy. In the first half of 2014, the total output value of the fishery economy across society was 7501.88 hundred million yuan, with value added reaching 3521.58 hundred million yuan, up 6.59% and 6.35% respectively year on year. Among this, the output value of fishery was 3920.97 hundred million yuan, the output value of fishery industry and construction was 1841.57 hundred million yuan, and the output value of fishery circulation and services was 1739.34 hundred million yuan.
Stable development of fishery production. Adequate supply of aquatic products. According to monthly statistical bulletins from 20 major fishery-producing provinces nationwide, from January to June the national output of aquatic products was 2616.38 ten thousand tons, up 3.40% year on year. According to another survey, highlights in the development of distant-water fishery were prominent; total output in the first quarter was 47.66 ten thousand tons, up 64% year on year, and the benefits of 329 distant-water fishing vessels newly put into operation last year began to emerge. According to statistics on transactions at 47 comparable aquatic product wholesale markets, in the first half of 2014 the transaction volume of aquatic products was 359.53 ten thousand tons, with a transaction value of 787.04 hundred million yuan. Stable growth of aquaculture area. The aquaculture area was 762.98 ten thousand hectares, up 3.81% year on year. Among this, the mariculture area was 159.57 ten thousand hectares, and the freshwater aquaculture area was 632.50 ten thousand hectares.
Overall stable prices of aquatic products. In the first half of this year, the aquatic product market was basically stable. Although affected by downward economic pressure and the policy environment, sales of famous, special and high-quality products decreased and prices fell, transactions in bulk varieties remained active, and the overall market saw both thriving buying and selling. According to statistics on transaction prices at 80 aquatic product wholesale markets nationwide, the comprehensive average price at aquatic product wholesale markets was generally stable, but the price fluctuations of individual varieties were relatively large. In the first half of 2014, the comprehensive average price at aquatic product wholesale markets was 22.42 yuan/kg, up 3.71% year on year.
Aquatic product trade stabilized and rebounded. Affected by the factor of arbitrage trade in the same period of 2013 raising the base, aquatic product export data showed a downward trend at the beginning of the year. However, after entering March, an obvious rebound began to appear, and aquatic product trade stabilized and rebounded. According to customs statistics, in the first half of the year the total import and export volume of aquatic products was 414.03 ten thousand tons, and the total import and export value was 14.401 billion US dollars, up 4.98% and 5.06% respectively year on year.
Sound fishery safety situation. All localities attached great importance to fishery safety supervision and strengthened aquatic product quality and safety management, ensuring that no major or extraordinarily serious fishery production safety accidents occurred during major holidays such as the Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, May Day, and Dragon Boat Festival, and the fishery production safety situation remained generally stable in the first half of the year. From January to June, a total of 87 fishery vessel water accidents occurred nationwide, with 86 deaths (missing), a decrease of 14.5 accidents and 51 people compared with the same period last year.