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Fishing and aquaculture

Longline and rack (offshore) aquaculture; caged (offshore) aquaculture; onshore aquaculture; rock lobster and crab potting; prawn fishing; line fishing; fish trawling, seining and netting; other fishing.

$1.5bof output in the year to March 2020; 0.19% of the economy's value added
$1.1bof goods exports in the year to September 2026, +6.9% on the year before
−1.3%growth in fishing, aquaculture and agriculture, forestry and fishing support services output, year to June 2026

Who it buys from

Share of everything it buys, year to March 2020. Click an industry to see its profile.

Who buys from it

Share of its output. Blue: households, government, investment and exports; grey: other industries.

Where each $100 goes

Including what its suppliers, and their suppliers, pay out (cumulated primary input coefficients), year to March 2020.

What it exports

Where it goes

Goods exports in the year to September 2026, shared out to industries by the products they make (input-output supply table) and to countries by HS heading.

Its prices

Prices it charges (output prices)Prices it pays (input prices)

Annual % change, Stats NZ producers price index for fishing and aquaculture.

Its emissions

Kilotonnes of CO₂ equivalent a year (Stats NZ environmental accounts).

Government support

Plus $1,116m of support for agriculture, forestry and fishing as a whole since 2009 ($214m in 2024/25), not attributed to particular industries.

Spending in Treasury's Estimates targeted at this industry, by fiscal year ending June, classified by the nz-industrial-policy project. Broad measures such as the R&D Tax Incentive aren't included.

Over time

Stats NZ publishes these for broader groups than the input-output tables, so each chart names the group it covers.

Output of fishing, aquaculture and agriculture, forestry and fishing support services

$ billion a year, inflation-adjusted (chain volume, seasonally adjusted)

Filled jobs and pay aren't published for farming industries (the Quarterly Employment Survey doesn't cover agriculture).

About these numbers

Industry here is one of the 109 industries in Stats NZ's input-output tables (working industries AA311, AA312). Buying and selling, and where each $100 goes, come from those tables for the year to March 2020, the latest published.

Exports are this year's goods exports, shared out to industries: each HS code is matched to input-output products (through the UN's product classification), then split between the industries that make each product, in proportion to how much they make. Services exports are shown from the input-output tables.

Output, jobs and pay are for the broader group shown on each chart. Prices use the most detailed producers price index that covers the industry. Emissions are Stats NZ's annual figures for the industry's working industries; per $100 of output uses the 2020 emissions and the input-output tables' output.

Sources: Stats NZ input-output tables, overseas merchandise trade, GDP, business price indexes, greenhouse gas emissions (industry and household), Quarterly Employment Survey; Treasury Estimates of Appropriations via the nz-industrial-policy project; UN Statistics Division correspondence tables.