In the 1^st quarter 2020

Poultry meat, livestock slaughtherings and landed catch registered a year-on-year growth while egg production decreased

According to the data collected by the Regional Directorate of Statistics of Madeira from the aviculture enterprises in the Region, in the first three months of 2020, the egg production stood at 4.0 million units, decreasing by 7.6% year-on-year while the poultry meat totalled 939.0 tonnes, up by 23.6% when compared to the same period of 2019.

Between January and March 2020, the weight of the slaughtered livestock increased by 10.7% year-on-year.

The data on landed catch, provided by the Regional Directorate of Fisheries, show that the volume of fish landed topped 760.4 tonnes, which generated 2.5 million euros in receipts. Compared to the same period last year, this represented an increase in the first quarter of 2020 of 6.2% in volume and of 6.1% in first sale receipts.

This growth was mainly driven by the contribution of the catch of tuna and tuna-like species (+761.9% in volume and +711.9 in value, compared to the same period of 2019). The second most important species - black-scabbard fish - had also an increase in volume (+3.1%), but the sales declined by 9.9%

The mean value of fish landed was €3.32 (€3.33 in the same period of 2019), with the average price for tuna and similar reaching €5.99 (6.41€ in the first nine months of 2019). In the case of  the black scabbardfish the mean value was €3.10 (€3.55 in the same period of last year). It should be mentioned that these ratios exclude the unloaded fish destined for self-consumption.

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