49,056.5 Tonnes of Farmed Fish Produced in 2025/26

TLDR

• By April 2026, it had produced 354,887.43 tonnes, accounting for 74.3 percent of natural-water fish production.
• The Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries says total fisheries production reached 659,242.69 tonnes by April 2026, an increase of 10.02 percent from 599,200.33 tonnes during the comparable period of 2024/25.
• A government budget statement presented to Parliament in May 2025 reported that 4,631 Tanzanians were employed in 64 fish-processing factories, while 56 of those factories exported fisheries products.
• The 2024 Economic Survey also recorded 317.23 tonnes of dried maws exported by April 2026 in the Ministry’s fisheries export table, although the broader 2024/25 and 2025/26 datasets use different reporting periods and.
• By April 2026, Tanzania had produced 49,056.5 tonnes of farmed fish during the 2025/26 financial year, worth approximately Sh343.4 billion, according to the Ministry’s budget data.