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Total capture fisheries production by EIFAAC Member country in freshwater environments in tonnes live weight (2014-2024)

Country / Year	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
Albania	1662	1645	1681	2047	2427	2772	2844	3544	3388	4858	4505
Austria	350	350	350	350	350	350	350	350	350	350	350
Belgium	284	283	283	283	283	283	283	283	283	283	283
Bosnia and Herzegovina	300	300	300	300	300	300	300	300	300	300	300
Bulgaria	142	86	52	52	54	60	68	89	48	37	78
Croatia	407	444	416	373	516	562	415	384	362	114	97
Czechia	3812	3841	3507	3557	3650	3721	3729	3314	3381	3369	3450
Denmark	127	48	37	35	24	38	40	123	93	94	94
Estonia	2933	2656	3109	3036	3243	3014	3715	2795	2715	2598	2651
Finland	29469	29469	28045	28709	23428	24653	30466	30263	33163	32919	32919
France	1181	1157	1075	1114	1105	1117	1115	1155	1251	1324	1327
Germany	15774	21349	20673	18773	17997	17170	16946	16708	17416	17100	15213
Greece	940	940	940	940	940	940	940	940	940	940	940
Hungary	7463	5926	5091	5636	5249	4836	5483	4601	4597	4602	4744
Iceland	211	201	176	137	124	119	130	116	111	10	0
Ireland	76	78	73	64	81	85	85	93	93	93	30
Israel	517	503	331	620	440	440	880	930	930	935	915
Italy	3800	3800	3800	3800	3800	3800	3800	3800	3800	3800	3820
Latvia	272	226	243	226	302	298	229	214	194	243	223
Lithuania	1219	1437	1210	1091	926	1279	1341	984	1075	973	995
Luxembourg	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Netherlands (Kingdom of the)	1908	1904	1915	1256	1321	1325	1315	1368	1398	1395	845
North Macedonia	282	350	122	87	140	400	473	514	447	280	138
Norway	321	408	393	424	309	330	354	226	289	210	121
Poland	12689	12376	12393	12086	12201	12162	12389	12785	13114	14383	14638
Portugal	3	1	2	1	3	1	1	0	0	0	0
Republic of Moldova	50	50	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Romania	4050	4464	5888	5445	3434	3779	3510	3224	3081	3318	3231
Serbia	3593	3150	2067	2209	2082	2547	1932	2353	2379	2470	2495
Slovakia	1944	1971	1866	1870	1937	1853	1736	1815	1895	1656	1516
Slovenia	149	141	145	142	129	146	155	161	158	151	118
Spain	1103	310	341	326	259	261	155	302	296	170	188
Sweden	9682	9017	7493	6904	6668	6200	8520	8098	10153	9686	8432
Switzerland	1983	2023	1851	1932	1553	1382	1486	1486	1486	1526	1551
Türkiye	36134	34176	33856	32145	30139	31596	33119	33140	33256	33532	33607
Ukraine	20437	20116	23711	26053	29754	28773	26711	24124	13271	15458	15356
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	698	747	656	581	1157	1150	1066	724	452	351	190
Total	165965	165943	164091	162605	156324	157740	166081	161305	156165	159527	155361
FAO. 2026. FishStat: Global capture production 1950-2024. [Accessed on 28 March 2026]. In: FishStatJ. Available at www.fao.org/fishery/en/statistics/software/fishstatj. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

Total aquaculture production by EIFAAC Member country in freshwater environments in tonnes live weight (2014-2024)

Country / Year	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
Albania	500	500	600	600	1850	1759	1612	1861	1316	1361	584
Austria	3390	3503	3483	3862	3991	4250	4527	4875	4696	5141	4983
Belgium	214	82	44	75	111	86	209	223	243	261	253
Bosnia and Herzegovina	3177	4277	4390	3584	3465	3782	3655	3683	3810	3951	4822
Bulgaria	8652	7760	9651	10640	11239	11119	10855	10381	7611	8809	9987
Croatia	3808	4832	4034	3272	2899	3100	2732	4143	4117	3677	4427
Czechia	20135	20200	20952	21685	21751	20986	20401	20991	19259	18613	18685
Denmark	21249	21249	21073	20916	20869	22681	34076	20612	17621	16355	11018
Estonia	870	799	868	870	944	857	966	581	506	643	615
Finland	1962	2506	2399	2220	2409	2760	3230	2972	3301	3228	4200
France	39855	33874	44588	44042	41056	43001	43092	40295	39283	36374	43767
Germany	20652	18954	19457	19043	18252	18615	18693	18294	17833	16848	16669
Greece	2073	2235	2157	2440	2646	2438	2401	2626	2407	2891	2759
Hungary	15326	17337	16248	18258	17852	17283	18436	18025	18557	17785	19435
Iceland	604	729	2138	4628	295	299	490	951	1131	441	200
Ireland	886	848	720	647	557	608	604	537	398	488	500
Israel	17093	17380	16532	14940	14325	12570	11430	10680	10413	10915	11210
Italy	34857	34869	40549	40700	36728	41501	36518	44285	32639	37579	33426
Latvia	686	863	788	808	830	609	717	901	870	784	742
Lithuania	3836	4450	4393	3749	3744	4215	4477	5135	4859	4258	4440
Luxembourg	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8
Netherlands (Kingdom of the)	5500	5145	5115	4765	5015	5310	4860	4820	4670	4770	5080
North Macedonia	1214	991	986	1508	1359	1956	1634	1661	1814	1873	2337
Norway	361	345	411	438	417	718	634	903	1031	1433	1174
Poland	40110	33560	35452	35419	36806	39731	45418	39610	42202	40667	43554
Portugal	752	890	676	655	697	665	914	867	423	317	209
Republic of Moldova	11080	11246	12091	12163	12610	12680	12600	12905	12910	14245	12757
Romania	10643	10987	12529	12798	12298	12848	12371	11713	11211	11264	10058
Serbia	7668	7887	7478	5670	7939	7507	6710	8008	6576	6606	6870
Slovakia	1231	1309	2169	2646	2224	2688	2296	2514	2614	2768	2445
Slovenia	901	959	1162	1004	1254	1230	1169	1175	1022	832	937
Spain	15531	16618	17814	17352	10928	17492	16292	18508	16896	17952	17516
Sweden	8660	8576	11005	9923	8239	8084	8690	11303	8981	9154	8700
Switzerland	1593	1593	1733	1733	1753	2179	2179	2184	2320	2384	2284
Türkiye	108239	101455	101601	104010	105167	116426	128236	136042	146083	156768	171382
Ukraine	23447	21271	21425	20168	18595	18612	18583	16903	14651	15292	18642
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	11893	11135	10961	10667	9524	9826	9142	9459	8663	7399	6813
Total	448655	431220	457680	457905	440649	470477	490859	490636	472945	484134	503486
FAO. 2026. FishStat: Global aquaculture production 1950-2024. [Accessed on 28 March 2026]. In: FishStatJ. Available at www.fao.org/fishery/en/statistics/software/fishstatj. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

Total inland aquaculture production value by EIFAAC Member country (freshwater environments x 1000 USD) (2014-2024)

Country / Year	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
Albania	2370	1985	2417	2519	5996	5604	5193	7191	5239	6504	2107
Austria	26798	22437	24875	28607	31192	33164	34555	39094	33845	39952	38660
Belgium	1352	599	487	774	994	603	1592	1712	1832	1981	2092
Bosnia and Herzegovina	9368	12990	13399	11729	12050	13612	13070	11708	14581	16114	23242
Bulgaria	30847	22372	25824	27834	36288	33997	37828	39242	29430	41950	50426
Croatia	9104	9239	8711	7849	7964	7950	6874	10893	11164	14590	15646
Czechia	50088	42134	44384	49237	54203	47227	45579	51456	51050	57850	56236
Denmark	90196	77338	81586	83475	87929	87851	134846	81104	75343	78414	55552
Estonia	4695	3772	4294	4203	4954	3561	4344	3565	3581	4665	5114
Finland	10742	10190	12249	13127	13627	13218	15041	16476	20499	20232	23931
France	169500	126386	162203	173665	178312	183399	186574	198070	135894	198987	236511
Germany	94974	75008	80736	91118	94934	87953	97931	104936	101604	107105	100168
Greece	11431	9885	10918	12496	12751	11712	10995	12404	10581	15388	14747
Hungary	39036	33991	34890	43734	45339	40360	40605	45543	57163	66343	64231
Iceland	3197	3351	8980	28231	1564	1378	1719	4740	5292	2027	919
Ireland	4160	3030	2254	2229	1881	1879	2152	2083	1299	1639	1622
Israel	71253	63505	67517	62849	59432	54147	54961	49518	47989	43430	59459
Italy	145967	121931	146207	151085	150118	159637	135770	188232	123620	187794	151507
Latvia	2457	2641	2308	2532	2357	1856	2510	3743	3480	3257	3366
Lithuania	11869	11699	13198	13294	14007	13970	14683	17883	20753	19556	19620
Luxembourg	36	32	31	34	34	33	33	38	26	44	45
Netherlands (Kingdom of the)	30529	27261	28149	34182	38199	39238	36951	39516	34328	36602	55788
North Macedonia	6364	4831	4492	6602	6374	9536	8359	8687	8684	11242	14431
Norway	3971	2755	3085	3788	3698	4909	4383	5949	6560	8676	7481
Poland	127690	96087	101234	114156	123607	116640	138245	146189	195687	201001	199784
Portugal	2393	1911	2012	2034	2750	2244	3062	5899	1473	1282	12881
Republic of Moldova	14159	14350	19154	22725	26328	25373	25498	32810	32023	37263	38214
Romania	25355	24122	30475	37011	36142	35680	44852	43317	37964	45136	47359
Serbia	24808	19569	19259	20031	26748	22984	19370	23487	26007	31560	30126
Slovakia	4434	4201	5577	6910	6479	8053	6404	8504	8278	10504	8964
Slovenia	3890	3867	4657	4067	6130	5701	5426	6272	5907	4923	5401
Spain	61684	56999	63219	61830	37616	67387	64379	78425	71810	90260	91371
Sweden	47566	37252	45519	46962	42591	31651	33847	47196	57929	46563	44797
Switzerland	18510	18510	30540	30540	30828	38009	38010	38098	40817	42098	40098
Türkiye	291144	255439	256674	243028	254359	318007	324332	373257	478449	565099	610937
Ukraine	64403	37549	35100	36668	41896	24944	24306	24651	23713	25267	33294
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	65972	56247	52737	48505	60621	53612	53531	61239	50559	51399	49579
Total	1582311.54	1315464.69	1449348.96	1529659.28	1560290.17	1607079.57	1677813.75	1833125.54	1834453.09	2136698.91	2215705.25
FAO. 2026. FishStat: Global aquaculture production 1950-2024. [Accessed on 28 March 2026]. In: FishStatJ. Available

Per capita fish and seafood consumption in EIFAAC Member countries (1999 and 2021)

Country/Area	1999 (kg/year)	2021 (kg/year)	Increase/Decrease (kg/year)
World	15.7	20.5	4.8
Europe	20.6	22.1	1.5
EIFAAC member countries, ranked by fish and seafood consumption in 2021
1. Iceland	91.8	91.6	-0.2
2. Portugal	60.4	54.2	-6.2
3. Norway	48.6	51.6	3.0
4. Spain	43.8	37.8	-6.0
5. France	32.2	35.3	3.1
6. Sweden	28.1	32.0	3.9
7. Finland	29.4	31.9	2.5
8. Luxembourg	32.6	31.5	-1.1
9. Italy	22.5	29.7	7.2
10. Lithuania	27.3	28.9	1.6
11. Israel	20.8	25.7	4.9
12. Belgium	NA	24.6	NA
13. Denmark	22.9	24.5	1.6
14. Latvia	17.1	22.4	5.3
15. Ireland	21.5	20.7	-0.8
16. Netherlands	22.8	20.4	-2.4
17. Cyprus	19.3	19.2	-0.1
18. Greece	22.8	19.2	-3.6
19. Croatia	4.1	19.1	15.0
20. United Kingdom	19.9	19.1	-0.8
21. Republic of Moldova	2.9	17.3	14.4
22. Switzerland	15.6	16.8	1.2
23. Ukraine	NA	14.6	NA
24. Austria	10.8	14.5	3.7
25. Estonia	16.1	13.3	-2.8
26. Germany	13.3	13.1	-0.2
27. Albania	2.7	12.6	9.9
28. Poland	9.2	11.9	2.7
29. Slovenia	6.9	10.9	4.0
30. Czechia	9.4	10.7	1.3
31. Slovakia	6.8	10.7	3.9
32. Romania	2.4	8.4	6.0
33. Serbia		7.8	7.8
34. Bulgaria	4.2	7.3	3.1
35. North Macedonia	4.6	7.0	2.4
36. Hungary	3.8	6.4	2.6
37. Bosnia and Herzegovina	1.6	5.7	4.1
38. Türkiye	7.7	5.5	-2.2
Data source: FAO. 2026. Food balance sheets of fish and fishery products 1961-2021 (FishStatJ). Available at www.fao.org/fishery/en/statistics/software/fishstatj.

Country/area	Total country area (excluding coastal waters; 2020)¹		Surface area of inland waterbodies (2020)²		Coastline length (2019)³		Total renewable water resources (2020)¹
	Total country area (excluding coastal waters; 2020)¹		Surface area of inland waterbodies (2020)²		Coastline length (2019)³
	km²	Share of world total (%)	km²	Share of world total (%)	km	Share of world total (%)	Billion m³/year	Share of world total (%)
World	133 780 390	100	3 494 969	100	805 942	100	54 737	100
EU27	4 136 697	3.09	117 775	3.37	61 150	7.59	2 018	3.69
EIFAAC	5 943 042	4.44	166 993	4.78	111 355	13.82	3 243	5.93
Top 20 aquaculture countries, ranked by aquaculture production in 2022
1. Norway	384 485	0.29	22 693	0.65	25 148	3.12	393	0.72
2. Türkiye	785 350	0.59	14 273	0.41	7 200	0.89	212	0.39
3. Spain	505 970	0.38	4 409	0.13	4 964	0.62	112	0.2
4. United Kingdom	243 610	0.18	4 620	0.13	12 429	1.54	147	0.27
5. France	549 087	0.41	4 357	0.13	4 853	0.6	211	0.39
6. Greece	131 960	0.1	3 652	0.11	13 676	1.7	68	0.13
7. Italy	302 067	0.23	4 149	0.12	7 600	0.94	191	0.35
8. Iceland	103 000	0.08	3 330	0.1	4 970	0.62	170	0.31
9. Poland	312 710	0.23	4 557	0.13	440	0.06	61	0.11
10. Ireland	70 280	0.05	2 015	0.06	1 448	0.18	52	0.1
11. Netherlands	37 390	0.03	1 219	0.04	451	0.06	91	0.17
12. Denmark	42 920	0.03	2 722	0.08	7 314	0.91	6	0.01
13. Croatia	56 590	0.04	899	0.03	5 835	0.72	106	0.19
14. Germany	357 250	0.27	4 523	0.13	2 389	0.3	154	0.28
15. Portugal	92 226	0.07	985	0.03	1 793	0.22	77	0.14
16. Czechia	78 871	0.06	592	0.02	0	-	13	0.02
17. Hungary	93 030	0.07	1 359	0.04	0	-	104	0.19
18. Finland	338 470	0.25	33 310	0.95	1 250	0.16	110	0.2
19. Israel	22 070	0.02	475	0.01	273	0.03	2	0
20. Republic of Moldova	33 850	0.03	324	0.01	0	-	12	0.02
Data source: 1. FAO AQUASTAT main country database (November 2020; http://fao.org/aquastat/statistics/query/index.html?lang=en). 2. FAOSTAT Land Cover database (CCI_LC; 13 July, 2023; www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/LC). 3. The World Factbook, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), United States of America. Web accessed on 20 May 2019 (www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/field/coastline/). Coastline length of world equal to the sum of coastline length of 265 countries and territories listed in the data source.
Notes: EIFAAC = European Inland Fisheries and Aquaculture Advisory Commission. EU27 = European Union (including 27 member countries).

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