Fish catch

• The latest figure is 16,418 tonnes for Dec 2025, up 59.6% on the same month a year earlier.
• Over the latest 12 months it came to 150,133 tonnes, up 39.4% on the 12 months before.
• The change on a year earlier averaged +19.7% over the last three months, against +243.2% in the three months before: the year-on-year pace has eased.
• No figure has been published for any period after Dec 2025, so this may be a discontinued or long-delayed series.

• Trend growth over the past 10 years is 0.5% a year (least-squares fit on the logarithm; R² 0.02, a loose fit: the series has not followed a steady path, and this rate says little).
• Measured end to end, compound growth is 0.2% a year over five years and 1.7% a year over ten, on 12-month totals.
• The record high (12-month total) was 203,174 tonnes in the year to Jun 2006; the latest is 26.1% below it.
• The past five years include an exceptional swing in the annual growth rate, so no typical range is quoted.
• There is a regular seasonal pattern: over the last 5 full years the high point has been January and the low point July. Compare each month with the same one a year earlier, not with the one before.

This site holds one version of this series so far, first stored on 6 Oct 2026. Each time MMA adds a period or revises a past figure, a new version is kept alongside the old one and the two are charted against each other here.

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Source

Ministry of Fisheries and Ocean Resources

Published by

MMA Statistics Database, series 249

MMA table

Real Sector › Fisheries › Fish Catch and Purchases

Coverage

Jan 1995 to Dec 2025 · 372 observations

MMA updated

16 Sep 2026

Last checked

22 Oct 2026

The analysis is calculated by Good Morning Maldives from the published figures; it describes the data and is not a forecast.