The Fishery Statistics compendium for the year 2012 is organized in nine chapters, each one including a brief analysis of results and the data tables.

Once more, this publication made available to May 31th, day of the Fisherman, provides an overview of the fisheries in Portugal, as well as for some branches of national economy related to this sector. It includes data related to the landings of fresh and chilled fishery products by ports, species and NUTS II, market and structures, the fishery activity, the number of fishery workers, the fish and aquaculture processing industry, the international trade and fish stocks.