A team of Antofagasta fishermen repairing their nets after the morning's catch
Courtesy Inter-American Development Bank

Chile is well endowed in fish and forest resources. Since the 1980s, output has increased rapidly in both sectors, and exports have boomed. An increasing proportion of these sectors' output was being processed, appearing in the economic statistics as manufactured products.

Data as of March 1994

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