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Profitability in fishing and fish processing 2011

Statistics Iceland releases now a new issue of Statistical Series in the topical category of of fishing and fish processing. This issue presents the profit of the fisheries in 2011. These statistics show the profits of the main sub-sectors of these activities such as boats in several size categories, pelagic boats, wet fish trawlers, freezing trawlers, processing of demersal species like freezing and salting, processing of capelin and fresh fish processing.

The net profit of fishing and processing of demersal species increased between 2010 and 2011 or from 28,9% to 30,3% (according to the annuity approach and 6% rate of return). Net profit of the fisheries total increased from the year before or from 19,8% of revenue to 22,6%. Aggregated balance sheet of fishing and fish processing show that the total assets of the fisheries are 547 billions, liabilities are 443 billions and equity is 105 billions.

 

Source: Statistics Iceland

Last modified on Friday, 28 December 2012 16:06
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