China's leisure fishery development monitoring report (2024) released!

Fri, 09/27/2024 - 15:32
Aquatic World

In 2023, the output value of leisure fisheries in China reached 93.147 billion yuan (the monitoring data does not include Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and Tibet), a year-on-year increase of 10.99%, which is close to the level of 2019. 

In 2023, the number of leisure fishery operators in China will be 140,400, a year-on-year increase of 1.51%. Among them, the number of operators above designated size (referring to operators with an annual output value of more than 2 million yuan in leisure fishery) will be 14,900, accounting for 10.64% of the total number of operators; the number of employees was 823,800, a year-on-year increase of 7.95%; the number of visitors was 272 million, a year-on-year increase of 15.00%, and the per capita consumption expenditure was 342.89 yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 3.49%; the number of leisure fishing vessels in China was 7,584, a year-on-year decrease of 2.69%, of which the number of marine leisure fishing vessels increased by 1.38% year-on-year, and the number of inland leisure fishing vessels decreased by 5.12% year-on-year.

According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs' leisure fishery monitoring classification, China's leisure fishery is divided into five types, namely: tourism-oriented leisure fishery, leisure fishing and gathering industry, fishing tackle, bait, ornamental fish, fishery medicine and aquarium equipment, ornamental fish industry and others. In terms of proportion, tourism-oriented leisure fishery and leisure fishing and gathering industry are the leading industries, with output values ​​of 38.878 billion yuan and 27.485 billion yuan in 2023, respectively, accounting for a total of 71.25% of the national output value; the output values ​​of fishing tackle, bait, ornamental fish, fishery medicine and aquarium equipment, and ornamental fish industry are 14.583 billion yuan and 11.899 billion yuan, respectively, accounting for 15.66% and 12.77%. The output values ​​of the four main types of industries have all increased, with the fastest year-on-year growth rates in tourism-oriented leisure fishery and ornamental fish industry.

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