Fresh fish purchases

• The latest figure is 2,962.05 tonnes for Aug 2026, down 43.2% on the same month a year earlier.
• In the first 8 months of 2026 the total was 31,634 tonnes, down 51.9% on the same stretch of 2025.
• Over the latest 12 months it came to 54,207 tonnes, down 33.8% on the 12 months before.
• The change on a year earlier averaged −44.5% over the last three months, against −44.8% in the three months before: the year-on-year pace is broadly unchanged.

• Trend growth over the past 10 years is 0.6% a year (least-squares fit on the logarithm; R² 0.01, a loose fit: the series has not followed a steady path, and this rate says little).
• Measured end to end, compound growth is -8.5% a year over five years and 1.8% a year over ten, on 12-month totals.
• The record high (12-month total) was 110,509 tonnes in the year to Oct 2006; the latest is 50.9% 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 February and the low point July. Compare each month with the same one a year earlier, not with the one before.

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Source

Ministry of Fisheries and Ocean Resources

Published by

MMA Statistics Database, series 253

MMA table

Real Sector › Fisheries › Fish Catch and Purchases

Coverage

Jan 1995 to Aug 2026 · 380 observations

MMA updated

7 Oct 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.