Commercial inland fishery 2025

Commercial fishers caught 4 million kilos of fish and 700,000 crayfish from inland waters in 2025. The value of the catch was EUR 12 million. The volume of catch decreased by one million kilos from the previous year and its value by nearly EUR 4 million.

• The commercial catch of vendace from inland waters was 1.7 million kilos. The catch of pikeperch was 780,000 kilos.
• Measured by the value of the catch, pikeperch was the most important catch species in inland waters. The value of the pikeperch catch was EUR 4.9 million. Vendace was the second most valuable catch, at EUR 3.5 million. The value of both the pikeperch and vendace catches decreased by around EUR 1 million from the previous year.
• The crayfish catch consisted almost entirely of signal crayfish. The value of the crayfish catch was just under EUR 1 million.
• Signal crayfish was the third most valuable species, followed by pike and perch (EUR 0.7 million and EUR 0.6 million, respectively).
• The value of the catch was highest in South Savo at EUR 2.2 million. The next highest catches by value were caught in North Karelia (EUR 1.5 million), North Savo and Pirkanmaa (EUR 1.2 million in each).
• There were 1,681 commercial fishers registered in Finnish inland waters at the end of 2025. Of them, 372 were group 1 fishers.
• Catch reports were submitted by 54% of group I fishers and 30% of group II fishers. The overall response rate was 36%. This is the lowest rate during the period in which the Fishing Act, in force since 2016, has applied.
• From 2025 onwards, catches of salmon and landlocked salmon are reported separately in the statistics, and lamprey is also reported as a separate species.