From September 2008 to April 2009, Chile will conduct its first national fisheries and aquiculture census. The results will be ready by the end of next year. Thanks to a pre-census carried out in May and June, some of the sector's traits have been revealed, such as its mobility and seasonality, Mariana Schkolnik, director of the National Institute of Statistics, told Tierramérica.

The goal is to provide updated economic, social and demographic statistics for this important segment of the Chilean economy, which will allow better policy decisions and facilitate the development of new studies in universities and research centers, she said.