Marine fishing cluster diagnostic Study

Exports of fish meal in partner countries; 
Sum of 2015-2019 in thousand USD 
50000 
47736,2 
40000 
30000 
20000 
10000 
6853 
5778,8 
1790,2 
0 
Turkey 
Taiwan 
Armenia 
Vietnam 
100 
Azerbaijan 
38,5 
Philippines 
Graph 5: Exports of fish meal in partner countries 
Source: External trade portal of Geostat 
 
The role of anchovies
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in the total raw fish exports has been volatile over the years and depended on the 
sole partner country in terms of raw anchovies’ exports: Turkey. Still, with the exception of 2017, 
anchovies took a sizable share of total raw fish exports, with the peak in 2018, when its share in total raw 
fish exports was 61%. However, Georgia’s total exports of raw fish in 2018 rapidly decreased com - pared 
to that of 2016, when this value was nearly 5 times more. This can be explained with the fact that 
according to the state ordinance issued in 2016, since January 2018 LHCs were committed to process at 
least 70% of captured fish in the territory of Georgia. This encouraged fish processing industry and thus 
affected the export of raw fish from Georgia. 
Graph 6: Value of exports of raw fish and the share of raw anchovies in total fish exports, 2015-2019 
Source: External trade portal of National Statistics Office of Georgia 
 
As marked earlier, in 2017 the European Union included Georgia in the list of 3rd countries that can 
export fish products to the EU market. However, EU market for anchovies is totally unexploited as of 
2019: There were 3 partner countries from EU: Germany in 2015, and Lithuania and Latvia in 2019. The 
combined share of these 3 countries in total exports of raw fish in the period amounts to just 1.53%. 
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HS6 code: 030242