Fishing and aquaculture

NACE 0322

Current registrations80

Starters, 12 months · division 0310

Employment (FTE) · division 03438

Median age · division 0318.2 years

In NACE division 03, 4.5 companies per 100 started in the past twelve months, against 7.5 nationally; that is lower than that of 75% of the 87 NACE divisions with this figure. Comparison: as of 18-10-2026 05:30.

Key figures for NACE division 03

financial year 2025 · median over 103 filed annual accounts

Median solvency

39.3%

lower than 73% of the 79 divisions with this figure

Median equity

€376,948

higher than 84% of the 79 divisions with this figure

Median net result

€1,746

lower than 95% of the 79 divisions with this figure

Annual accounts in sample

103

Foreign control in NACE division 03

157 registered companies

Companies with a foreign parent

1.3%

2 of 157; Belgium 0.3%

Staff at those companies

0 of 479 FTE; Belgium 15%

Main parent countries: Luxembourg (1) and Norway (1).Show on the map by municipality

Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 03

48 employers

Median

€77,400

Belgium €61,400

Middle half

€61,300 to €89,200

half of the employers lie between

Place among sectors

17 of 78

sectors with a median staff cost per FTE, highest first

By size class
Size	Median	Middle half	Employers
fewer than 10 FTE	€79,300	€62,600 to €92,600	37

Employers with the highest staff cost per FTE in this division All sectors by staff cost In the Analysis workbench

Bankruptcies

past five years

Bankruptcies (5y)

Historical share

2.50%

Nationally, 1.61% of current registrations have a published bankruptcy opening in the past five years. This sector's historical share is higher than that of 81% of the 88 NACE divisions with this figure. The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 03 is 0.5%, against 0.2% nationally, over 142 scored companies. Comparison: as of 18-10-2026 05:30.

Regional split

by region · 46 of 80 enterprises with a registered office on file

Wallonia 30 · 65.2%

Flanders 14 · 30.4%

Brussels 2 · 4.3%

Recent bankruptcies in this sector

Date	Company
16-10-2025	BUILDING INTEGRATED GREENHOUSES BE 0633.720.301
17-01-2025	AQUABELGIUM BE 0841.511.820

Geographic distribution

by province · based on the registered office

West Flanders WVL 2

East Flanders OVL 2

Antwerp ANT 5

Flemish Brabant VLB 2

Limburg LIM 3

Brussels BRU 2

Hainaut HAI 5

Walloon Brabant WBR 2

Namur NAM 10

Liège LIE 7

Luxembourg LUX 6

fewer moremax 10

Where are this sector's balance sheets registered? By municipality, down to the address

Subsidies in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number

Flemish subsidies €4.0m awarded 36 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Investeringssteun en andere maatregelen
Wallonia-Brussels Federation €202,065 paid 1 recipient · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Conventions et contrats programmes indexés dans le domaine des patrimoines culturels
EU budget €126,874 attributed share 1 recipient · 2023 · largest: Horizon Europe
EU research €153,045 eu contribution 1 recipient · 2021 to 2024 · largest: Horizon 2020

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How these figures are counted

Current enterprise registrations are counted through their registered main activities; establishment units are excluded. Counted in the KBO's NACE 2025 nomenclature, the one in which code 0322 exists.

Share of currently registered companies with a published bankruptcy opening in the past five years. Registered main activities in the selected classification can overlap. This retrospective share is not a future bankruptcy probability.

The comparison with the country and with the other NACE divisions comes from a nightly overview of every division, each counted in the nomenclature in which it exists. A standing such as "higher than 80%" counts the other divisions that have the figure. The bankruptcy probability is the median of our nightly score over the division's companies that have one; the count is stated.

The key figures cover the whole NACE division 03, not NACE 0322 on its own: there are too few filed annual accounts per five-digit code to compute them separately. The middle company of the sector, based on all filed annual accounts.