47,000 tons of fish and seafood are expected to be consumed in Colombia during Easter Week

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Bogotá.-According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, for this year it is expected that about 47,000 tons of fish and seafood will be consumed at Easter, 6% more than the previous year.
And is that during the period from January to September last year, with respect to the same period of 2022, the GDP of fisheries and aquaculture recorded a growth of 17%.
In addition, during the same period from January to September 2023, with respect to the same period in 2022, exports of tilapia and trout grew 8% in volume and 21% in value, while farmed shrimp recorded a growth of 26% in volume and 26% in value. The sector generates approximately 61,000 direct jobs and 183,000 indirect jobs.
The species most traded during Easter Week are: farmed: red and black tilapia, cachama, shrimp and rainbow trout; river: catfish, doncella, bocachico, nicuro, dorada, blanquillo, yamú; sea: shrimp, snook, snapper, sierra and tuna; and imported: basa, salmon and frozen tilapia fillets.
The regions with the highest fish production are the Caribbean, with around 37 thousand tons, as well as the Magdalena River, where it amounts to 14 thousand tons.
The country’s main wholesale market, Corabastos, is ready to meet the demand of families, restaurants and hotels during this time of the year with the 1,500 tons of different varieties of fish and seafood from river, sea and farming that it has available.