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Chile's exports of fishery products and aquaculture reached a value of USD 4,228 million in the first 11 months of 2011.
This was a rise of 32.1 per cent over the same period in 2010.
Sales of frozen products and fishmeal were the most voluminous, representing 47.9 per cent and 28.2 per cent of the total, respectively, according to the latest Report on Fisheries and Aquaculture Sector by SUBPESCA, followed by fresh refrigerated products (9 per cent) and dried seaweed (5.7 per cent).
The average price of fishery products exported between January and November was USD 4 per kilogram, 13.2 per cent higher than the same period in 2010.
According to statistics from SUBPESCA, the main export was Atlantic salmon, which accounted for 26.3 per cent of total sales abroad. This was followed by rainbow trout and Pacific salmon.
In the fishing sector, the accumulated value of fish exports (585,000 tonnes) reached USD 1,292 million, between January and November 2011, an increase of 8.8 per cent over the same period last year.
In the first 11 months 299,323 tonnes of fishmeal were sold abroad for USD 435.9 million, while a year earlier, 305,091 tonnes, worth USD 514.6 million, had been exported.
Foreign sales of frozen seafood products totalled USD 579 million, an increase of 46.4 per cent over the same period in 2010.
Aquaculture sector exports accounted for 69.4 per cent of total foreign sales and 44.8 per cent of total exports between January and November last year, amounting to USD 2,936 million and about 475,000 tonnes.
These figures go up in value 45.9 per cent and 33.1 per cent in volume compared with the same period in 2010.
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