Madagascar fisheries and aquaculture
The national production published by the ministry of Fisheries and the Blue Economy: the annual series since 1967, the six activities and the coastal-shrimp catch.
In 2024, Madagascar's national fishery and aquaculture production reached 178,219 tonnes, a +15.0 % change year over year. The industrial fishery caught 3,594 tonnes of coastal shrimp in 2024. Source: ministry of Fisheries and the Blue Economy (MPEB).
Total production, 2024
178,219 t
+15.0 % change on the prior published year.
Coastal shrimp (industrial fishery), 2024
3,594 t
The emblematic export series, tracked since 1967.
Series depth
1967 - 2024
58 years published by the ministry.
Total production since 1967
Total annual fishery and aquaculture production, in tonnes, as published by the MPEB. The older decades carry visibly rounded estimates, kept as published.
See the full annual series
| Year | Total production |
|---|---|
| 1967 | 775 |
| 1968 | 1,340 |
| 1969 | 1,635 |
| 1970 | 2,910 |
| 1971 | 4,080 |
| 1972 | 4,690 |
| 1973 | 4,800 |
| 1974 | 15,722 |
| 1975 | 4,630 |
| 1976 | 4,540 |
| 1977 | 6,725 |
| 1978 | 4,950 |
| 1979 | 4,330 |
| 1980 | 4,981 |
| 1981 | 5,125 |
| 1982 | 5,285 |
| 1983 | 5,514 |
| 1984 | 5,867 |
| 1985 | 36,732 |
| 1986 | 55,472 |
| 1987 | 62,926 |
| 1988 | 92,966 |
| 1989 | 101,581 |
| 1990 | 103,470 |
| 1991 | 100,972 |
| 1992 | 106,442 |
| 1993 | 115,029 |
| 1994 | 119,987 |
| 1995 | 120,139 |
| 1996 | 118,877 |
| 1997 | 120,968 |
| 1998 | 119,407 |
| 1999 | 134,544 |
| 2000 | 130,759 |
| 2001 | 133,583 |
| 2002 | 135,126 |
| 2003 | 137,925 |
| 2004 | 134,916 |
| 2005 | 132,648 |
| 2006 | 133,693 |
| 2007 | 130,771 |
| 2008 | 131,094 |
| 2009 | 134,544 |
| 2010 | 129,245 |
| 2011 | 119,006 |
| 2012 | 146,145 |
| 2013 | 145,373 |
| 2014 | 124,037 |
| 2015 | 108,099 |
| 2016 | 139,984 |
| 2017 | 163,492 |
| 2018 | 135,169 |
| 2019 | 131,646 |
| 2020 | 124,538 |
| 2021 | 124,761 |
| 2022 | 147,365 |
| 2023 | 154,978 |
| 2024 | 178,219 |
Tonnes. MPEB figures as published.
Production by activity
The ministry's nomenclature distinguishes six activities: industrial fishery, artisanal fishery, small-scale fishery, continental fishery, marine aquaculture and freshwater aquaculture. The latest published years, in tonnes.
| Activity | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pêche industrielle | 21,118 | 11,186 | 24,170 | 16,222 | 16,574 |
| Pêche artisanale | 195 | 115 | 191 | 368 | 1,954 |
| Petite pêche (Ex pêche traditionnelle) | 71,927 | 89,576 | 87,596 | 77,362 | 110,761 |
| Pêche continentale | 17,812 | 7,517 | 10,285 | 23,516 | 19,303 |
| Aquaculture marine | 13,357 | 15,060 | 23,024 | 33,893 | 17,866 |
| Aquaculture d'eau douce | 128 | 1,301 | 2,099 | 3,617 | 11,761 |
Tonnes. MPEB figures as published.
Coastal shrimp since 1967
The coastal-shrimp catch of the industrial fishery is the longest series of the ministry's workbook. It reads against the international shrimp price and the customs exports.
Annual catch of the industrial fishery, in tonnes, as published by the MPEB.
Method
Stileex collects the MPEB's official national-production workbook (distributed by the ministry through Google Drive), archives every revision and the statistical yearbooks (2013 to 2023) verbatim, and normalises the published series: the total production, the six activities and the industrial fishery's species detail. Nothing is estimated: figures are booked as published, including the rounded estimates of the older decades.
Source: ministry of Fisheries and the Blue Economy (MPEB), 'Production nationale de la pêche et de l'aquaculture' workbook.
API access
The latest value of each series is freely accessible as JSON. The full history is served on a free API key.
- Total production (latest year)
GET https://api.stileex.xyz/v1/series/mg/fishery-production/latest- Coastal shrimp (latest year)
GET https://api.stileex.xyz/v1/series/mg/shrimp-catch/latest- Series catalog
GET https://api.stileex.xyz/v1/series/mg
Frequently asked questions
- What is Madagascar's fishery and aquaculture production?
- The ministry of Fisheries and the Blue Economy publishes a total annual national production, in tonnes, aggregating the maritime fishery (industrial, artisanal, small-scale), the continental fishery and aquaculture (marine and freshwater). The latest published year is shown at the top of this page with its change.
- Where do these figures come from?
- From the MPEB's official 'Production nationale de la pêche et de l'aquaculture' workbook, complemented by the fisheries and aquaculture statistical yearbooks (2013 to 2023). Stileex archives every revision of the workbook and books the figures as published.
- Why does the series go back to 1967?
- The ministry's workbook runs from 1967 to the recent years. The older decades carry sometimes rounded estimates (the ministry then published orders of magnitude): they are kept as published, never reprocessed.
- How do I access the data via API?
- The latest value of the total production and of the coastal-shrimp catch is freely served as JSON. The full history is available with a free API key, from the series catalog.