Nominal Catches of Fish by Principal Producers

Nominal Catches of Fish by Principal Producers
▪ 2001

Nominal Catches of Fish
by Principal Producers

  1997
production   1998
production
Country (metric tons)   (metric tons)
China 15,722,344   17,229,957
Japan 5,916,155   5,259,089
United States 4,983,468   4,708,980
Russia 4,661,853   4,454,759
Peru 7,869,871   4,338,437
Indonesia 3,791,025   3,698,850
Chile 5,811,567   3,265,306
India 3,517,084   3,214,765
Thailand 2,877,622   2,900,320
Norway 2,856,017   2,850,428
South Korea 2,204,047   2,026,934
Philippines 1,805,806   1,827,971
Iceland 2,205,944   1,681,951
Denmark 1,826,852   1,557,335
Mexico 1,489,020   1,181,402
Malaysia 1,172,922   1,153,719
Vietnam 1,078,668   1,130,660
Argentina 1,351,066   1,128,823
Spain 1,143,122   1,106,557
Taiwan 1,038,048   1,076,288
Canada 963,492   995,011
United Kingdom 886,269   919,905
Myanmar (Burma) 830,346   872,971
Bangladesh 829,426   839,141
Brazil 744,585   760,000
Morocco 783,615   708,332
New Zealand 596,017   635,711
Pakistan 589,731   596,980
South Africa 514,453   558,832
The Netherlands 451,799   536,626
France 567,476   536,254
Venezuela 463,215   506,177
Turkey 459,153   487,200
Ukraine 373,005   462,308
Ghana 446,788   442,692
Senegal 506,966   425,766
Sweden 357,406   410,886
Faroe Islands 329,736   376,270
Iran 349,921   366,853
Egypt 345,220   365,580
Namibia 279,484   352,188
Tanzania 356,960   348,000
World Total 93,619,100   86,299,400
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        Source: UN Food and Agriculture Organization.

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