2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
Just a week before the big Christian holiday St. Nicholas Day fish prices jumped, with the largest increase in blackbirds.
The prices of some Black Sea fish this year are up to three times higher than last year's prices due to low catches.
Fishermen say that they have not entered the sea for almost a month, and last year at that time they caught 2-3 tons of fish.
For the last month, owners of fishing vessels from Burgas have managed to catch between 300 and 500 kilograms of fish.
The price difference for the Black Sea fish, which will be offered on the market this year around St. Nicholas Day, will be 2-3 leva higher than last year.
The horse mackerel, which last year sold for BGN 3, will be offered for BGN 6 this year.
The biggest increase is in the black digger, whose price will reach between BGN 12 and 14, unlike last year, when it was offered at prices from BGN 4 to 5 per kilogram.
Sea bass and bream are offered at prices between 7 and 13 levs, frozen mackerel, which is imported from Norway, goes between 5 and 9 levs per kilogram.
Most buyers have told the media that they intend to ignore the Black Sea fish and prepare the traditional St. Nicholas carp for the holiday.
Its price remains unchanged - 5 levs per kilogram, as traders promised that immediately before the holiday the increase will not be more than 1 lev.
Some sellers believe that 1-2 days before St. Nicholas Day the market will be flooded with carp and this will require a price drop of 20-30 cents.
This means that a medium-sized fish will cost between 10 and 20 levs.
According to experts, nearly 14 tons of illegally caught carp have already been released on the market.
Illegal fishing is twice as cheap and traders buy it in a second.
Inspectors from the Executive Agency for Fisheries and Aquaculture (NAFA) failed to confiscate the illegal fish in time.
For this reason, police teams will be deployed around the dams, which will protect the fish from gangs that flood the market with cheap catch before the holiday.
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