Fisheries and aquaculture statistics 2024

ABARES Australian Fisheries and Aquaculture Statistics (AFAS) contains comprehensive information on commercial wild-catch fishing and aquaculture in Australia covering seafood production, trade data and consumption and employment statistics, with data to 2023−24.

AFAS aims to provide statistical information for the fishing and aquaculture industry, fisheries managers, policy makers and researchers and has two components:

A report released around September focused on seafood production data from non Commonwealth jurisdictions
A separate edition released in November that will include 2024−25 Commonwealth fisheries production data and trade data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

AFAS complements ABARES annual medium-term forecasts and projections of fisheries and aquaculture production and exports published in March. For the most recent outlook (including projections to 2029−30) see the ‘Fisheries and aquaculture’ chapter in ABARES Agricultural Commodities Report March 2025 edition. This report also discusses factors affecting, and broader trends in, the fisheries and aquaculture sectors.