The Fishery Statistics compendium, for the reference year 2023, is organized in nine chapters, each one including a brief analysis of results and the data tables.

This publication joins the Fisherman’s national day - May 31th, providing an overview of the fisheries in Portugal, as well as for some branches of national economy related to this sector. It includes data related to the landings of fresh and chilled fishery products, breakdown by ports and species, market and structures, the fishery activity, the number of fishery workers, the fish and aquaculture processing industry, the international trade and fish stocks. In this edition, the geographic disaggregation of results at the regional level was carried out in accordance with the new configuration of NUTS 2024.