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Fish exports

Fisheries › Volume of Fish ExportsMonthlyMetric tonne

Latest
4,041.86
Aug 2026
On a year earlier
−13.4%
same period last year
2026 to date
23,554
−58.9% on the same stretch of 2025
Trend growth, 10 years
0.2% a year
least-squares fit, R² 0.00

The whole record

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Source: Maldives Customs Service, via the Maldives Monetary Authority statistics database.

What the numbers say

Short term

The latest readings
  • The latest figure is 4,041.86 tonnes for Aug 2026, down 13.4% on the same month a year earlier.
  • In the first 8 months of 2026 the total was 23,554 tonnes, down 58.9% on the same stretch of 2025.
  • Over the latest 12 months it came to 42,567 tonnes, down 36.5% on the 12 months before.
  • The change on a year earlier averaged −35.8% over the last three months, against −70.6% in the three months before: the year-on-year decline has narrowed.

Long term

The record as a whole
  • Trend growth over the past 10 years is 0.2% a year (least-squares fit on the logarithm; R² 0.00, a loose fit: the series has not followed a steady path, and this rate says little).
  • Measured end to end, compound growth is -11.8% a year over five years and 0.2% a year over ten, on 12-month totals.
  • The record high (12-month total) was 110,232 tonnes in the year to Dec 2006; the latest is 61.4% 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 May and the low point July. Compare each month with the same one a year earlier, not with the one before.

How to read this series

Fisheries. Fish caught, fish bought by processors, and the volume exported, in metric tonnes. Catches swing with the season and the weather, so single months say little on their own.

  • A flow: it measures activity during each month, and months add up to an annual total.
  • Recent periods are often revised as fuller data arrive. The version comparison below shows what MMA has changed since this site began keeping copies.

MMA’s note: Volume of fish exports

Terms such as percentage points, flows and stocks, and trend growth are explained in How to read the tracker.

Revisions

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.

Stored versions of Fish exports
VersionStoredMMA updatedCoversAddedRevisedRemoved
1 (current)6 Oct 202628 Sep 2026Jan 2004 – Aug 2026———

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All figures

Every period on record, newest first. Sort by any column, filter, copy the table or download it as CSV.

Every observation of Fish exports
Aug 20264,041.86 tonnes−13.4%
Jul 20262,622.96 tonnes−66.7%
Jun 20264,378.03 tonnes−27.3%
May 20262,337.29 tonnes−68.7%
Apr 20263,634.26 tonnes−62.5%
Mar 20261,431.65 tonnes−80.6%
Feb 20261,329.82 tonnes−84.4%
Jan 20263,778.55 tonnes−33.8%
Dec 20256,842.1 tonnes+162.8%
Nov 20253,032.85 tonnes−6.5%
Oct 20254,065.19 tonnes+111.1%
Sep 20255,072.26 tonnes+164.6%
Aug 20254,665.12 tonnes+114.5%
Jul 20257,887.22 tonnes+617.1%
Jun 20256,020.6 tonnes+72.3%
May 20257,469.96 tonnes+71.7%
Apr 20259,701.16 tonnes+104.4%
Mar 20257,376.94 tonnes+96.2%
Feb 20258,511.74 tonnes+41.3%
Jan 20255,710.93 tonnes+27.6%
Dec 20242,603.93 tonnes−72.3%
Nov 20243,245.18 tonnes−48.5%
Oct 20241,925.69 tonnes−55.3%
Sep 20241,916.66 tonnes−8.0%
Aug 20242,175.05 tonnes+17.6%
Jul 20241,099.85 tonnes−65.5%
Jun 20243,494.69 tonnes−49.4%
May 20244,351.05 tonnes−54.9%
Apr 20244,745.14 tonnes−35.7%
Mar 20243,760.2 tonnes−68.6%

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About this series

Source
Maldives Customs Service
Published by
MMA Statistics Database, series 267
MMA table
Real Sector › Fisheries › Volume of Fish Exports
Coverage
Jan 2004 to Aug 2026 · 272 observations
MMA updated
28 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.