KARACHI - The exports of fish and fishery products touched 
a record growth of 15.68 percent to PKR 367.472 million in 
2013-14, beating the target set by the Marine Fisheries 
Department (MFD), its director general said on Thursday 7 
August 2014.

 Sharing the latest data of Pakistan Bureau of Statistics 
(PBS), Shaukat Hussain, director general of MGD, said his 
department’s exports have increased by 12.25 percent (in 
quantity) in the financial year 2013-14 whereas, last year, 
it was valued at PKR 317.652 million (quantity 138,680 
metric tons). They had set a target of PKR 367.472 million 
for the year 2013-14.

 The MGD director general said that the upsurge in exports 
was the result of the government’s successful efforts to 
curb the smuggling of fresh water fish to Afghanistan and 
the commencement of legal exports to the country from 
November 2013.