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Trends in Marine and Inland Fisheries Capture by Species



	Total Capture (thousand metric tons)
																Molluscs (includes
	Aquatic Plants			Crustaceans			Diadromous Fish			Freshwater Fish			Marine Fish			cephalopods)
	1979-	1989-	1999-	1979-	1989-	1999-	1979-	1989-	1999-	1979-	1989-	1999-	1979-	1989-	1999-	1979-	1989-	1999-
	1981	1991	2001	1981	1991	2001	1981	1991	2001	1981	1991	2001	1981	1991	2001	1981	1991	2001
WORLD	987938	1257389	1272569	3090379	4002144	6410227	1280	1665	1726	4259	5229	6887	..	..	..	3659	5565	7696
ASIA (EXCL. MIDDLE EAST)	269977	470424	499313	1457100	2199503	4627934	243	670	839	2141	2568	4082	20320	25427	28102	1865	2974	4826
Armenia	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	2	1	..	0.4	0.1	..	..	..	..	..	..
Azerbaijan	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	42	17	..	1	0.3	..	0.1	0	..	..	..
Bangladesh	..	..	..	..	17230	31479	..	195	218	440	328	586	116	125	153	..	..	..
Bhutan	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	0.2	0.3	0.3	..	..	..	..	..	..
Cambodia	..	..	..	0	6166	8764	..	..	..	30	63	279	3	25	27	0	3	2
China	14088	66697	228903	455003	1013763	3091661	15	23	106	259	632	1217	2225	4261	9782	138	743	2366
Georgia	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	0.2	0	..	0.1	0	..	103	2	..	0	0
India	..	80000	100000	213101	248217	379254	26	30	136	549	490	749	1244	1921	2291	11	59	103
Indonesia	7015	101318	35677	142739	171894	294501	12	27	76	242	274	288	1170	2043	3280	52	56	108
Japan	179139	191942	120684	170568	180366	198327	161	245	240	49	30	18	8370	7840	3461	1023	1084	1016
Kazakhstan	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	30	3	..	45	31	..	0.1	0	..	..	..
Korea, Dem People's Rep	..	..	..	0	16000	14551	..	..	..	69	50	20	1332	1274	159	0	0	10
Korea, Rep	60673	28859	13617	54713	111061	84927	15	13	9	22	22	5	1560	1714	1323	243	489	550
Kyrgyzstan	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	0	0	..	0.2	0	..	..	..	..	..	..
Lao People's Dem Rep	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	23	19	30	..	..	..	..	..	..
Malaysia	..	..	..	100207	112428	102365	4	12	18	6	1	3	532	717	1051	18	49	75
Mongolia	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	0.4	0.2	0.4	..	..	..	..	..	..
Myanmar	..	..	..	..	7000	29000	..	..	..	148	137	195	429	586	827	..	..	..
Nepal	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	2	5	15	..	..	..	..	..	..
Pakistan	..	..	..	26849	29035	31264	7	1	0.4	43	101	179	218	335	405	0	3	10
Philippines	7913	1404	0	53548	59553	81829	3	5	3	49	70	55	1063	1495	1626	207	190	136
Singapore	..	..	..	1434	1168	617	..	0	0	1	0.1	0	14	9	4	1	1	0.4
Sri Lanka	..	..	..	5872	5477	1587	..	..	..	21	27	33	157	152	250	0.4	0.3	0.3
Tajikistan	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	0	0	..	0.3	0.1	..	..	..	..	..	..
Thailand	1142	0	0	163128	158385	140611	0	0	0.1	105	131	206	1359	1953	2233	140	250	252
Turkmenistan	..	..	..	..	2	0	..	43	11	..	1	1	..	0	0	..	..	..
Uzbekistan	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	0	0	..	4	3	..	..	..	..	..	..
Viet Nam	..	..	..	47957	46299	131133	..	..	..	84	134	169	335	584	955	20	36	188
EUROPE	257697	407677	359120	219057	654052	459821	46	470	409	158	340	235	11004	18032	14315	450	855	648
Albania	..	..	..	0	0	0	0	0.2	0.2	3	1	1	6	6	2	0	0.1	0.2
Austria	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	1	0.4	..	..	..	..	..	..
Belarus	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	0.3	0.1	..	2	1	..	..	..	..	..	..
Belgium	..	..	..	1959	1520	1282	0	0.1	0.2	0	0.4	0.4	45	37	27	1	1	1
Bosnia and Herzegovina	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	2	..	..	0	..	..	..
Bulgaria	..	..	..	0	0	1	0.1	0.1	0.1	1	1	2	94	56	3	1	6	4
Croatia	..	..	..	..	..	0	..	..	0	..	..	0	..	..	18	..	..	1
Czech Rep	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	0.1	..	..	4	..	..	..	..	..	..
Denmark	..	..	..	9199	12531	13182	3	4	1	0.1	0.4	0.2	1768	1590	1357	78	101	111
Estonia	..	1172	615	..	21721	12170	..	3	1	..	2	3	..	337	93	..	12	1
Finland	..	..	..	0	0	0	17	19	14	51	50	38	84	71	104	..	..	..
France	47234	79181	68504	32181	21420	20198	2	2	1	2	4	2	515	524	510	37	60	72
Germany	..	..	..	17024	12219	16525	2	2	1	23	10	23	500	268	178	4	10	0
Greece	..	..	..	3357	5134	3521	0	0.1	2	9	3	3	85	110	82	6	16	14
Hungary	..	..	..	0	0	0	0	0.1	0.1	12	13	7	..	..	..	..	..	..
Iceland	11280	13554	18672	11103	33486	37109	0.5	1	0.2	0	0	0	1513	1306	1850	9	11	13
Ireland	..	32632	36100	5115	10169	18698	1	3	1	0	2	0	131	193	276	2	4	10
Italy	2583	1763	2000	21204	31865	19734	2	3	1	8	10	4	310	244	171	80	108	102
Latvia	..	0	0	..	4790	3099	..	1	0.5	..	0	1	..	451	125	..	17	0
Lithuania	..	..	..	..	5888	5323	..	2	0.4	..	4	2	..	375	94	..	25	0
Macedonia, FYR	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	0.1	..	..	0	..	..	..	..	..	..
Moldova, Rep	..	..	..	..	5	0	..	0.1	0	..	1	0.3	..	..	..	..	..	..
Netherlands	..	..	..	5729	7103	13982	1	2	1	1	1	1	263	356	469	16	46	24
Norway	128393	190097	182059	42597	57575	69101	2	3	2	..	..	..	2481	1732	2601	5	10	1
Poland	..	..	..	0	6217	18911	2	2	2	14	17	19	578	404	184	20	42	2
Portugal	5837	6984	1457	0	2305	4244	0.1	0.1	0.1	0	0	0	248	293	176	10	25	16
Romania	..	..	..	0	0	0	2	1	0.3	15	14	5	128	107	2	0.3	0.1	0
Russian Federation	..	51333	35636	..	221118	83937	..	388	356	..	160	104	..	6624	3285	..	154	84
Serbia and Montenegro	..	..	..	..	..	13	..	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	0.4	..	..	0.03
Slovakia	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	0.1	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..
Slovenia	..	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	0	..	..	0.2	..	..	2	..	..	0.1
Spain	6112	12165	14014	25227	29949	34576	4	3	2	14	5	4	985	1005	955	135	118	104
Sweden	..	..	..	2673	2812	3519	4	5	2	2	2	1	220	236	327	0	0	0
Switzerland	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	2	1	3	2	1	..	..	..	..	..	..
Ukraine	..	9837	0	..	104445	3483	..	20	13	..	32	4	..	768	359	..	15	5
United Kingdom	56258	8839	0	29533	46345	59650	2	3	6	..	0	0	793	690	638	39	64	74
MIDDLE EAST & N. AFRICA	5127	6695	7338	26630	42840	60244	4	17	78	120	217	300	1179	1622	2343	31	133	188
Afghanistan	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	1	1	..	..	..	..	..	..
Algeria	..	..	..	2140	2496	3268	0	0	..	0	0	0	45	87	97	0	1	1
Egypt	..	..	..	3122	6300	14443	..	..	2	82	143	224	35	90	151	1	1	6
Iran, Islamic Rep	..	..	..	2048	9252	7147	2	13	74	1	27	34	45	193	247	0	1	7
Iraq	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	14	17	9	27	2	13	..	..	..
Israel	..	..	..	0	0	0	..	..	..	3	2	2	13	7	4	0.02	0.1	0.1
Jordan	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	0	0.4	0.4	0.04	0.01	0.2	..	..	..
Kuwait	..	..	..	685	1851	1332	0.1	0.4	1	0	0	0	3	2	4	..	..	..
Lebanon	..	..	..	0	0	0	..	..	..	0	0	0	2	2	3	0	0.02	0.1
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya	..	..	..	0	0	0	..	..	..	0	0	0	6	24	33	4	0	0
Morocco	5127	6695	7338	1187	5321	10625	0.3	0.1	0.2	0	1	1	320	479	761	13	76	135
Oman	..	..	..	..	1788	792	..	..	..	0	0	0	80	115	113	0	1	5
Saudi Arabia	..	..	..	7213	3709	5678	0	0	0.1	0	0	0	19	39	42	0.1	0.02	1
Syrian Arab Rep	..	..	..	0	0	0	..	..	..	2	2	5	1	1	2	..	..	..
Tunisia	..	..	..	1124	2033	6343	0.4	0.3	0.1	0	0	1	53	72	78	6	15	10
Turkey	..	..	..	6930	6626	3762	1	4	1	15	23	22	390	326	491	2	35	15
United Arab Emirates	..	..	..	0	0	1157	0	0	0.1	0	0	0	66	93	111	0.01	0.03	0.3
Yemen	..	..	..	913	1091	1255	..	..	..	0	0	0	67	74	118	5	3	8
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA	16558	17618	33370	43404	66822	91330	5	10	6	1171	1583	1766	1921	2169	3140	25	74	66
Angola	..	..	..	0	586	3612	..	..	..	7	8	6	102	121	212	0	0.1	0.4
Benin	..	..	..	0	7287	7050	0	1	1	33	20	19	4	10	11	..	..	0
Botswana	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	1	0.1	..	..	..	..	..	..
Burkina Faso	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	7	7	8	..	..	..	..	..	..
Burundi	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	13	16	12	..	..	..	..	..	..
Cameroon	..	..	..	613	1008	0	..	..	..	20	22	52	60	47	58	0	0	0
Central African Rep	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	13	13	15	..	..	..	..	..	..
Chad	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	62	65	84	..	..	..	..	..	..
Congo	..	..	..	0	0	0	..	..	..	11	26	25	19	21	17	0	0	0
Congo, Dem Rep	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	106	162	205	1	3	4	..	..	..
C�te d'Ivoire	..	..	..	2852	2447	0	0.4	1	0.2	15	22	11	70	66	63	0	0	0.2
Equatorial Guinea	..	..	..	0	0	0	..	..	..	0	0.4	1	2	3	3	0.2	0.1	0.1
Eritrea	..	..	..	..	..	0	..	..	0	..	..	0	..	..	9	..	..	0.1
Ethiopia	..	..	..	0	0	0	..	..	..	3	4	16	0	1	0	0	0	0
Gabon	..	..	..	1733	1226	2025	..	..	..	2	2	10	17	18	33	0	0	0.2
Gambia	..	..	..	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	3	3	10	17	27	0.1	3	1
Ghana	..	..	..	603	2056	1216	4	6	3	40	58	74	191	305	381	1	3	3
Guinea	..	..	..	..	0	541	..	..	..	1	3	4	19	42	84	0	0	1
Guinea-Bissau	..	..	..	771	1084	920	..	..	..	0	0.2	0.2	3	4	4	0	0	0
Kenya	..	..	..	0	807	888	0.3	0.1	0	47	173	189	5	7	5	0	0.1	0.2
Lesotho	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	0	0	0	..	..	..	..	..	..
Liberia	..	..	..	551	0	0	0	0.1	0.2	4	4	4	8	6	8	0	0	0
Madagascar	0	0	4257	5574	10312	12894	..	..	..	39	29	30	11	60	88	0	0.3	1
Malawi	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	59	69	43	..	..	..	..	..	..
Mali	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	82	70	103	..	..	..	..	..	..
Mauritania	..	..	..	0	0	893	..	..	..	6	6	5	21	30	54	8	34	20
Mozambique	..	..	..	9610	11371	12017	..	..	..	4	4	10	21	17	12	0.1	0.1	1
Namibia	0	4332	773	1500	574	2824	..	..	..	0	1	2	9	162	568	0	0.1	0.3
Niger	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	9	4	16	..	..	..	..	..	..
Nigeria	..	..	..	1931	9248	28892	..	..	..	108	86	142	147	181	278	..	2	2
Rwanda	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	2	7	..	..	..	..	..	..
Senegal	0	0	0	4547	8037	7477	..	..	..	22	19	27	191	261	344	11	19	28
Sierra Leone	..	..	..	569	953	1918	1	1	1	14	15	14	36	39	52	1	2	1
Somalia	..	..	..	1037	548	0	..	..	..	0.1	0.4	0.2	11	21	19	..	0.4	0
South Africa	13840	11152	23316	9271	5146	2639	..	..	..	1	1	1	891	621	651	3	9	8
Sudan	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	27	30	48	1	1	5	..	..	..
Tanzania, United Rep	2667	3400	4833	0	2114	2067	..	..	..	176	319	274	37	51	49	0.1	0.4	1
Togo	..	..	..	1	0	0	..	0	0.4	4	5	5	6	10	17	0	0	0
Uganda	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	171	224	222	..	..	..	..	..	..
Zambia	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	47	66	66	..	..	..	..	..	..
Zimbabwe	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	13	24	13	..	..	..	..	..	..
NORTH AMERICA	154666	126809	79519	499399	625388	723496	403	492	386	68	40	36	3204	5069	3995	862	832	839
Canada	30621	38495	26700	67922	121568	285141	105	123	41	25	27	23	1053	1170	541	141	120	131
United States	124045	88314	52820	400766	435430	344752	297	368	344	43	13	13	2072	3804	3384	720	712	707
C. AMERICA & CARIBBEAN	37337	58054	37524	150789	131865	146243	0.2	0.5	0.2	49	143	110	1433	1445	1377	91	143	180
Belize	..	..	..	637	562	1396	..	..	..	0	0	0	0	0	29	1	1	10
Costa Rica	..	..	..	3712	4343	2594	..	..	..	0.3	0.4	1	14	12	29	0	0.1	0.1
Cuba	..	..	..	17713	14233	14338	0	0	0	5	14	5	138	140	36	4	7	5
Dominican Rep	..	..	..	1055	889	1175	..	0	0	2	1	1	6	12	7	1	5	2
El Salvador	..	..	..	11129	2833	2752	..	..	..	2	4	2	3	3	8	0	0.4	1
Guatemala	..	..	..	2724	2453	2152	..	..	..	0.5	2	7	1	1	14	0	0	0.2
Haiti	..	..	..	0	883	0	..	..	..	0.3	0.4	0	4	4	4	..	0.4	0.3
Honduras	..	..	..	5427	3547	3721	..	..	..	0.1	0	0.1	1	5	6	0.2	7	1
Jamaica	..	..	..	6	0	506	..	..	..	0.2	0.4	0.4	9	7	5	..	1	1
Mexico	37337	58054	37524	86189	81279	87637	0.2	0.5	0.2	39	121	92	1058	1074	970	83	114	153
Nicaragua	..	..	..	5569	2505	10631	..	..	..	0.1	0.2	1	2	2	13	0	0	1
Panama	..	..	..	11788	8868	8765	..	..	..	0	0	0	163	147	182	0.2	2	2
Trinidad and Tobago	..	..	..	0	1011	845	..	..	..	0	0	0	4	8	9	0	0	0
SOUTH AMERICA	96233	147671	240163	143274	167104	209460	0.1	1	1	260	307	346	7626	14382	15235	174	237	621
Argentina	14423	2375	0	1316	10379	48130	0	0.2	0.1	11	10	27	388	504	571	38	36	325
Bolivia	..	..	..	..	..	..	0	0.2	0.3	4	3	5	0	3	1	..	..	..
Brazil	..	..	..	91246	79446	58457	0	0	0	158	186	192	540	522	490	8	6	6
Chile	81552	145027	237277	21336	26535	34097	..	0	0	0	0	0	2830	5694	4225	78	109	68
Colombia	..	..	..	4657	8584	7381	..	..	..	48	30	26	26	65	90	0.2	1	0.3
Ecuador	..	..	..	10160	10514	2358	..	..	..	0.2	1	0.4	570	397	556	4	2	0.1
Guyana	..	..	..	3267	4118	19390	..	..	..	1	1	1	29	33	32	..	..	..
Paraguay	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	3	12	25	..	..	..	..	..	..
Peru	0	0	2850	1793	9600	9238	..	1	0.2	15	35	35	2982	6782	8864	27	45	115
Suriname	..	..	..	903	926	6805	..	..	..	0.1	0.4	0.2	2	5	11	..	..	..
Uruguay	0	0	0	0	7	6927	..	..	..	0.4	0.3	2	122	115	85	3	3	15
Venezuela	..	..	..	8369	13600	13607	..	0.1	0.4	19	29	33	136	260	294	16	32	50
OCEANIA	16306	22008	16109	45642	52108	61998	3	5	7	10	14	12	313	602	944	33	61	86
Australia	16258	21916	15990	39599	45035	53845	1	2	4	1	2	0.1	67	133	112	18	19	31
Fiji	0	0	0	0	1133	1192	0.1	0.3	0	0.02	0.01	0.3	20	23	26	1	5	11
New Zealand	0	0	5	4606	3885	4132	2	1	1	0.4	1	0.4	127	308	523	13	31	40
Papua New Guinea	..	..	..	1202	1310	1812	0.3	1	1	8	11	11	32	11	80	..	..	..
Solomon Islands	..	..	..	0	2	0	..	..	..	0	0	0	35	50	38	0	0.1	0
DEVELOPED	621615	759497	598634	911877	1445698	1348836	612	1328	1071	281	468	327	23597	32018	22992	2368	2830	2580
DEVELOPING	232287	497458	673821	1673418	2493983	5031689	94	337	655	3695	4743	6559	23403	36729	46459	1162	2479	4874

All figures are three year averages for the range of years specified. Numbers in this table are reported with varying precision: values greater than 0.5 thousand metric tons are rounded to thenearest whole number, values between 0.05 and 0.5 thousand metric tons are rounded to the nearest tenth (one decimal place), values between .005 and .05 are rounded to the nearesthundredth (two decimal places), and "0" represents a value of less than .005 thousand metric tons. Technical notes:.TXT|.DOC Download file:XLS | PDF THE WORLD BANK UNEP THE NETHERLANDS MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS SIDA UNDP USAID © 2006 World Resources Institute Contact Us Content licensed under a Creative Commons License.