Iceland’s aquaculture sector is becoming an increasingly important contributor to the nation’s economy, quadrupling in value in just five years and now making up 10 percent of all seafood exports.

The fishing industry has always been important to Iceland’s economy, and seafood is the second-largest exported commodity after aluminum, according to Commodity.com.

Recent figures from Statistics Iceland show total export revenues from all seafood, including aquaculture, reached ISK 299 billion (€1.9