date:Aug 06, 2014
arative period last year, making up 9.4 per cent of the total landings.
An increase in the landings of shrimp (+78.0 per cent), stone bass (+8.7 per cent) and swordfish (+1.1 per cent) were outweighed by drops in all other species, in particular mackerel (-62.2 per cent) and bluefin Tuna (-20.7 per cent). Similarly, the wholesale value of fresh fish landings edged down by 0.5 per cent to 180,282 in the second quarter this year.
Indices
The quarterly All Items fresh fish price index for the s