Fisheries Industries
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Overview
The Fisheries sector boasts diverse resources of marine life species. These species range from finfish products such as fish species like yellow fin tuna, big eye tuna, albacore tuna, marlin, swordfish, mahi-mahi, and deep water fish like snapper and reef fish species like sea-bream, trevally, groupers, coral trout and rock cods to aquaculture products which include prawn, seaweed, giant clam and tilapia farming.
The Tuna industry dominates sector in terms of output and export.
Fish accounted for 13.7% of domestic exports in 2008. The Tuna industry dominates the sector in terms of output and export. The overall performance of the sector over past years is attributed to increased catch of tuna for the Japanese sashimi market. The performance of the sector is closely linked to the growth of offshore fisheries.
Offshore Fishing Industries
Tuna as the major foreign exchange earner for Fiji’s fishing industry is boosted by the development of domestic tuna long line cannery and processing companies and to the vast lucrative sashimi and sushi markets in Japan. Major export products include sashimi (fresh and frozen), tuna loins, value added products, canned tuna and tataki.
Inshore Fishing Industry
The inshore resources that are exported includes aquarium commodities such as ornamental fish, live ornamental invertebrates, live coral and live rock. Dried beche-de-mer, trochus shell button blanks, dried seaweed, frozen reef food fish and black pearls are other inshore commodities.
Resource Base
Fiji has in the 200 nautical miles Economic Zone archipelagic baseline in an area totaling 1,145,000 square kilometers. The large stock of marine resources such as tuna species of Yellow fin, Skipjack, Albacore, and Big eye in the EEZ presents a lot of opportunities for investment. The total allowable catch from tuna lonline in Fiji's 15,000 metric tonnes.
There are 410 registered "Qoliqoli" or customary fishing right areas throughout Fiji, which support the Inshore Fisheries.
There are also non-tuna species namely Marlin, Sailsh, Mahi-mahi, Barracudda and Opah. The inshore waters of Fiji are the bases of the reef fish.
The Tuna industry dominates sector in terms of output and export.
Fish accounted for 13.7% of domestic exports in 2008. The Tuna industry dominates the sector in terms of output and export. The overall performance of the sector over past years is attributed to increased catch of tuna for the Japanese sashimi market. The performance of the sector is closely linked to the growth of offshore fisheries.
Offshore Fishing Industries
Tuna as the major foreign exchange earner for Fiji’s fishing industry is boosted by the development of domestic tuna long line cannery and processing companies and to the vast lucrative sashimi and sushi markets in Japan. Major export products include sashimi (fresh and frozen), tuna loins, value added products, canned tuna and tataki.
Inshore Fishing Industry
The inshore resources that are exported includes aquarium commodities such as ornamental fish, live ornamental invertebrates, live coral and live rock. Dried beche-de-mer, trochus shell button blanks, dried seaweed, frozen reef food fish and black pearls are other inshore commodities.
Resource Base
Fiji has in the 200 nautical miles Economic Zone archipelagic baseline in an area totaling 1,145,000 square kilometers. The large stock of marine resources such as tuna species of Yellow fin, Skipjack, Albacore, and Big eye in the EEZ presents a lot of opportunities for investment. The total allowable catch from tuna lonline in Fiji's 15,000 metric tonnes.
There are 410 registered "Qoliqoli" or customary fishing right areas throughout Fiji, which support the Inshore Fisheries.
There are also non-tuna species namely Marlin, Sailsh, Mahi-mahi, Barracudda and Opah. The inshore waters of Fiji are the bases of the reef fish.
The coastal waters, coastal mangroves and surrounding reefs have large stocks of fish, crabs, clams, shellfish. prawns, lobsters, etc. In addition, a variety of seaweed are also available in the Fiji waters. There are 410 registered "Qoliqoli" or customary fishing right areas throughout Fiji, which support the Inshore Fisheries. The Qoliqoli are demarcated for indigenous Fijians as their customary fishing ground.
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