Definition
Fresh fish is the fish and shellfish that fishing vessels land at a port without freezing or processing, for first sale at the fish market. Port statistics count it in tonnes, separately from cargo.
Puertos del Estado records only the landings at ports of general interest. The fish that comes in through the ports run by the autonomous communities, which include many of the fishing ports, does not appear in this figure, and frozen fish is counted as cargo.
In tonnes it is a small item of port traffic, but it sustains fish markets, ice plants, slipways and part of the employment of many ports on the Cantabrian coast, in Galicia and on the Gulf of Cádiz.
The figure · August 2026
Year to date · January–August 2026
84,006 tonnes
August 2026 only
11,678 tonnes
First port
18,674 tonnes
Fresh fish landings in Spanish ports in 2026
Spanish ports handled 84,006 tonnes of fresh fish landings in the year to August 2026, 12.7% less than in the same period of 2025. In August alone, the figure was 11,678 tonnes, 0.1% less than in August 2025.
The full ranking, the trend and the table are in the indicator Fresh fish landings in Spanish ports. To explore the data in detail, see PortStats · fresh fish by port, annual series.