Fishing Industry In Morocco

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By : SAADI Chirihane and SAADEDDINE Fatima 28/03/2017 Business In Global Context (Mr. ELJAAFARI Samir) Fishing Industry In Morocco 2nd Semester Report Table of content : Geographic Area 2 Industry 2 Products 3 Buyers 3 Competitors 4 Reference’s bibliography 5 Annexes 6 Geographic Area: Fishing has been a central industry ideal from the 30s and it's primarily focused in the urban communities of Safi, Tan-Tan and Agadir. Morocco is equally the greatest producer of the European sardine. The coastal fishing represents about 86% of the main overall production, 13% deep sea fishing and algae aquaculture and Agriculture. …show more content…

The sea off Morocco's Atlantic drift is one of the wealthiest fishing grounds in the world. Even if Morocco's high sea fishing fleet is smaller in tonnage than its coastal fishing fleet, but they still have the largest return in value since their catches are comprised generally high-costed cephalopods and white fish. The Government of Morocco started a progression of measures in 1990, including port development and financial encouragements, which would motivate the Moroccan fishing fleets to Moroccan ports. Thanks to the Morocco's high sea fleet were based in Moroccan ports. The port of Agadir city which is the home to the most of the fleet while Tan Tan also keeps a quantity of boats. The movement of the high sea fleet underlines the progression of the Moroccan fishing industry and its development into a challenger for Spain. In addition, this development set Morocco for meeting with different fleets in her seawater, which is exactly what happened between Morocco and Spain. …show more content…

It has the leading position on the market when it comes to canned sardines. There are three main product types that affect the market value of the exports: canned and semi-cured products (38%), frozen products (41%) and fresh products (13%). Next to canned sardines we can find a lot of products such as: cephalopods, white fish, canned fish, frozen fish, dark flesh fish and shellfish. Buyers: Morocco's targeted customers are multiple and diversified, we find the Moroccan fishery products all over the world but the European market remains the main destination for approximately 70% of them. The other destinations for these products are: Africa, Asia, Japan, Middle East, America and many

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