Aquaculture

Statistics Estonia

Economic and Environmental Statistics Department

Anton Kardakov

Leading Analyst

Tatari 51, 10134 Tallinn, Estonia

anton.kardakov [at] stat.ee

37253345697

30/08/2025

30/08/2025

Quantity of sold fish and crayfish by farmed species, salinity of water and by type of facility; value of sold catch by farmed species;

sale of fish roe (for consumption) by farmed species, salinity of water and value of sold catch by farmed species;

production of hatcheries and nurseries for release into the wild or a controlled environment by farmed species and age group;

quantity of fish and crayfish collected from the wild and purchased by species; value by species;

area and volume of waterbody used for fish and crayfish farming by type of facility, incl. waterbodies with fresh water and sea water (every three years)

Age group of fish and crayfish;

classification of fish farming facilities;

classification of fish by species;

aquatic environment

The data cover aquaculture.

The Classification of Economic Activities in Estonia (EMTAK) based on NACE Rev. 2:

03211 Marine aquaculture;

03221 Freshwater aquaculture

Cage – a net structure with floats placed in the sea or in a natural freshwater body

Enclosure with water recirculation system – artificial structure where water is re-used after bio-filtering

Hatchery and nursery – artificial structure where eggs and juveniles are bred, hatched and reared

Pond and tank – a natural structure or a structure with artificial walls and bottom where water interchange takes place up to 10 times a day

Raceway – an artificial structure with high water turnover rate (more than 10 times a day) without water recirculation

Sale of commercial fish – fish farming production sold as commercial fish to Estonia and foreign countries in the current year

Enterprise

Aquaculture enterprises

FRAME

List of active enterprises whose main or secondary activity is aquaculture (EMTAK 03.2–03.22). The list is generated from the Business Register for Statistical Purposes.

Estonia as a whole

1992–…

Not applicable

Sold fish production – tonne;

sold fish eggs for consumption and eggs or specimens transferred from the wild – kilogram;

eggs or specimens sold or transferred for restocking the wild or to a controlled environment – thousand pieces;

value – euro;

average price – euros/kg;

aquaculture facilities – number, ha, m³

Year

DIRECTLY APPLICABLE LEGAL ACTS

Regulation (EC) No 762/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 July 2008 on the submission by Member States of statistics on aquaculture and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 788/96

OTHER LEGAL ACTS

Not available

OTHER AGREEMENTS

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

The dissemination of data collected for the purpose of producing official statistics is guided by the requirements provided for in § 32, § 34, § 35, § 38 of the Official Statistics Act.

The dissemination of data collected for the production of official statistics is based on the requirements laid down in §§ 34 and 35 of the Official Statistics Act.

The principles for treatment of confidential data can be found here.

Notifications about the dissemination of statistics are published in the release calendar, which is available on the website. Every year on 1 October, the release times of the statistical database, news releases, main indicators by IMF SDDS and publications for the following year are announced in the release calendar (in the case of publications – the release month).

Calendar

All users have been granted equal access to official statistics: dissemination dates of official statistics are announced in advance and no user category (incl. Eurostat, state authorities and mass media) is provided access to official statistics before other users. Official statistics are first published in the statistical database. If there is also a news release, it is published simultaneously with data in the statistical database. Official statistics are available on the website at 8.00 a.m. on the date announced in the release calendar.

Annual

A news release on fish and crayfish farming once a year. The news release can be viewed on Statistics Estonia's website in the section News.

Not published

Data are published in the statistical database at https://andmed.stat.ee/en/stat under the subject area Economy/Fishing in the following table:

KA40: Commercial catch and realisation in fish farms by species

The dissemination of data collected for the purpose of producing official statistics is guided by the requirements provided for in §§ 33, 34, 35, 36 and 38 of the Official Statistics Act. Access to microdata and anonymisation of microdata are regulated by Statistics Estonia’s procedure for dissemination of confidential data for scientific purposes.

Data serve as input for statistical activities 10601 “Material flow accounts” and 10106 “Environmental goods and services sector accounts”.

The methodology used is based on Regulation (EC) No 762/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council and on Eurostat's Aquaculture Statistics Handbook and other materials of Eurostat’s working party on fishery statistics. The methodology applied in Estonia is described in quality reports submitted to Eurostat.

Quality report submitted to Eurostat in accordance with data submission under Regulation (EC) No 762/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council

To assure the quality of processes and products, Statistics Estonia applies the European Statistics Code of Practice and the Quality Assurance Framework of the European Statistical System (ESS QAF). Statistics Estonia is also guided by the EFQM Excellence Model and the requirements in § 7 “Principles and quality criteria of producing official statistics” of the Official Statistics Act.

Statistics Estonia performs all statistical activities according to an international model (Generic Statistical Business Process Model – GSBPM). According to the GSBPM, the final phase of statistical activities is overall evaluation using information gathered in each phase or sub-process; this information can take many forms, including feedback from users, process metadata, system metrics and suggestions from employees. This information is used to prepare the evaluation report which outlines all the quality problems related to the specific statistical activity and serves as input for improvement actions.

Ministry of Regional Affairs and Agriculture

Since 1996, Statistics Estonia has conducted reputation and user satisfaction surveys. All results are available on Statistics Estonia's website in the section User surveys.

The data are complete and correspond to the data composition requirements of the EU regulation on aquaculture statistics.

The type of survey and the data collection methods ensure sufficient accuracy and coverage.

Not applicable

Not measured

The data are published 145 days after the end of the reference year (T + 145 days).

The data have been published at the time announced in the release calendar.

An internationally harmonised methodology, based on the European Union Regulation on aquaculture, allows for cross-country comparisons of published data.

The data are comparable over time. The methodology and basic principles, definitions and classifications have remained the same over time.

Not available

The outputs of the statistical activity are coherent.

Total time of filling in reports of the statistical activity: 76 hours (data for 2024)

The data revision policy and notification of corrections are described on Statistics Estonia's website in the section Principles of dissemination of official statistics.

There are no planned revisions. The published data may be revised if the methodology is modified, errors are discovered, new or better data become available.

SURVEY DATA

The total population is 58 units. Total survey has been used, which means that all enterprises whose main or secondary activity is aquaculture are included in the total population of the survey.

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA

Not used

DATA FROM OTHER STATISTICAL ACTIVITIES

Not used

Annual

Data are collected and the submission of questionnaires is monitored through a web-based data submission self-service environment. The questionnaires have been designed for independent completion in the self-service environment and include instructions and controls. The questionnaires and information about data submission are available on Statistics Estonia's website in the section Questionnaires.

Data are collected with the annual official statistical questionnaire “Fish and crayfish farming” by surveying all fish farms.

The input data are checked and, if necessary, corrected according to specified rules, and the compliance of calculated statistics with the quality requirements is checked as well: comparisons are made with previous periods, internal coherence, the coverage of the population and the response rate are checked.

In the case of missing or unreliable data, missing values are imputed according to set rules. Missing variables are imputed using previous period data of the same unit.

Variables and statistical units which were not collected but which are necessary for producing output are calculated. New variables are calculated by applying arithmetic conversion to already existing variables. This may be done repeatedly; the derived variable may, in turn, be based on previously derived variables.

Microdata are aggregated to the level necessary for analysis. This includes summation of data according to the classification and calculating various statistical measures.

The collected data are converted into statistical output. This includes calculating additional variables.

Not applicable

Not available