Valmis aastaraamatu "Eesti kalamajandus 2022–2023" ingliskeelne tõlge "Estonian Fishery 2022–2023".
Dear Reader,
Since one financing period ended in the meantime and the next one has not yet begun, the Fisheries Information Centre skipped a year in its publishing cycle. That is why an overview of both 2022 and 2023 appear within the covers of this one volume.
Naturally, these were trying years, with the attention of the entire democratic world focused on Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine. It is precisely this aspect, however, that drives home how important food sufficiency is for every country, and it is precisely the calling of the fisheries sector to contribute to the food supply.
In general, the development of fishery in these two years bore similarities to the previous years. Fish farming mainly treaded water and the long-awaited quantum leap failed to happen. The trawling sector scraped by and fortunately arrangements for shipping fish to war-torn Ukraine, our biggest export market, were very quickly re-adjusted. A trend discerned in coastal fishing was that the round goby, which had in the past been considered a much-maligned, non-native species, began playing a very important economic role in some areas. At the same time, cormorant populations have resisted efforts to rein in their range. This avian species has, over the past few decades, become the most numerous marine bird that consumes fish on the same scale as coastal fishermen – if not even more voraciously – and thereby very directly dents our common stock.
The Fisheries Information Centre has been publishing these yearbooks since 2010. We have tried to keep the same structure in the interest of easy retrieval and comparison of data. Since 2018, I have closed the foreword of the yearbooks by urging readers to ‘Eat fish, and if at all possible, Estonian fish’. This time is no different.
Toomas Armulik
Head of Fisheries Information Centre
Yearbook 'Estonian Fishery 2022–2023' can be ordered from Fisheries Information Centre (
