Country
Fishery Information: SLOVENIA |
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SLOVENIA |
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GENERAL STATISTICS |
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Area (kmq) |
20273 |
geographic coordinates |
46 07N, 14 49E |
coastline (km)
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46.6 |
GENERAL ECONOMIC DATA |
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population (millions 2005 est.)* |
2 |
annual population growth rate (1975-2005)* |
0.5% |
gross domestic product (GDP per capita annual growth rate)
(1990-2005)*
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3.2% |
education
index, 2005* |
0.974 |
human development index (HDI) value, 2005*
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0.917 |
urban population (as % of total) 2005*
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51 |
infant mortality rate (per 1.000 live births) 2005*
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3 |
internet users (per 1.000
people) 2005**
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540 |
personal computers (per 1.000 people) 2005 est.** |
400 |
agriculture, value added (% of GDP) 2005 est.**
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3 |
industry, value added (% of GDP) 2005 est.**
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33 |
services, etc., value added (% of GDP)2005 est.**
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64 |
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The Republic of Slovenia is located in southern central Europe
(surface: 20 273 square kilometres; population: 2 millions in 2005).
It became member of the European Union on May 1st 2004. In the
southeast part of Gulf of Trieste (North Adriatic) Slovenia has a
short but important coastline (46.6 kilometres) with territorial
waters bordering Italy and Croatia. Slovenia lies in the FAO-GFCM
Geographical Sub Area 17.
Slovene fisheries can be divided into two sectors: marine and
freshwater; both sectors include capture fishing and aquaculture.
The contribution of fishing to the economy is small, providing only
about 0.014 percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Slovenia’s
domestic fisheries production in 2006 was approximately 2 500
tonnes, of which 1 131 from capture fisheries and 1 369 from
aquaculture.
Pelagic fish catch is predominant (61 percent), demersal fish
and cephalopods represent 38 percent of the total artisanal catch.
Among pelagic resources European pilchard Sardina pilchardus is the
most important fish species with 96 percent (1 565 tonnes in 1999)
of the industrial catch. Small pelagics (Sardina pilchardus,
Sprattus sprattus, Engraulis encrasicolus, Scomber scombrus, S.
Japonicus, Trachurus trachurus and T. mediterraneus) are caught
with purse-seine in territorial waters and midwater trawl in
territorial and international waters. Inland freshwater resources
are for Slovenian aquaculture more important compared to the marine
resources. The present Mediterranean mussel production covers only
the needs of domestic market. The period from 1991 onward has seen
the intensification in particular of European seabass
Dicentrarchus labrax and gilt-head sea bream Sparus aurata
farming in the Bay of Piran (Marčeta, 2000).
Slovenia’s domestic fisheries production in 2006 was approximately 2
500 tonnes, of which 1 131 from capture fisheries and 1 369 from
aquaculture. The annual average of fishery imports in the period May
2004-2005 was 22 382 tonnes (live weight), while fish exports stood
at 6 722 tonnes (live weight).
Import figures for fishing, hatcheries and services in 2000 had a
total value of 4 651 000 USD while export was estimated at 286 000
USD. In May 2004-2005, average per capita supply was estimated at
being 9.2 kg/year (FAO, 2008).
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FISHERIES DATA |
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total fisheries production (t) 2006*** |
2500 |
capture production (t) 2006*** |
1313 |
aquaculture production (t) 2006*** |
1369 |
per caput fish supply (kg/year, May 2004-2005)*** |
7.0 |
production (tonnes in live weight) May 2004-2005*** |
2662 |
non-food uses (tonnes in live weight) May 2004-2005*** |
11 |
imports (tonnes in live weight) May 2004-2005*** |
22382 |
exports (tonnes in live weight) May 2004-2005*** |
67227 |
food supply (tonnes in live weight) May 2004-2005*** |
18311 |
imports (US$ 1.000) 2003*** |
66353 |
exports (US$ 1.000) 2003*** |
20362 |
net balance 2006*** |
-45991 |
fishery exports as a percentage of agricultural exports (%)
2003**** |
4.0 |
fishery exports as a percentage of total merchandise exports (%)
2006*** |
0.1 |
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Source: FAO – FISHSTAT
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