Commercial marine fishery 2020

• Fishing vessels registered in Finland caught a total of 112 million kilos of fish in 2020. The total value of the catch was EUR 31 million.
• A total of 92.5 million kilos of Baltic herring and 12.5 million kilos of sprat were caught. The Baltic herring catch decreased by twenty million kilos from the previous year, the sprat catch by 3.5 million kilos.
• Baltic herring and sprat were mainly caught from the open sea by trawlers.  One fifth of the Baltic herring catch and more than half of the sprat catch were landed abroad.
• Important species in coastal fishing were European whitefish (0.4 million kilos), perch (0.7 million kilos), vendace (0.3 million kilos), salmon (0.2 million kilos) and pikeperch (0.2 million kilos). Catches of European whitefish, pikeperch and salmon were low compared with the long-term average (1980–2020), while perch and vendace had larger catches than normal.
• In coastal areas, most fishermen used trap nets and gillnets to catch, for example, European whitefish (0.4 million kilos), perch (0.7 million kilos), vendace (0.3 million kilos), salmon (0.2 million kilos) and pikeperch (0.2 million kilos). European whitefish, pikeperch and salmon catches
• Fishing days, calculated as the number of days multiplied by the quantity of gear, continued to decrease. During the 2000s, the number of trap fishing and trawling days has halved and that of gillnet fishing has decreased to one third, while hook and line fishing has almost stopped altogether.

Value of the catch has been revised 6th September 2021.