Inland Fisheries

1.4.5. Total inland capture fisheries: major producers countries

Global inland capture fisheries production was fairly stable between 2000 and 2004 at about 8.6 million tonnes, but in the following four years it showed an overall increase of 1.6 million tonnes, reaching 10.2 million tonnes in 2008 (Table 1). Asia accounted for two-thirds of the world production (Figure 5). The table 2 shows the variations between 2004 and 2008 for the 14 countries with catches of more than 200000 tonnes each in 2008 and which together represented about 78 percent of the 2008 world catches.

Inland capture fisheries: Major producer countries

Country	2004	2008	Variation 2004-2008
	(tonnes)	(tonnes)	Tonnes	Percentage
China	20971671	2248177	151010	7.2
Bangladesh	732067	1060181	328114	44.8
India	527290	953106	425816	80.8
Myanmar	454260	814740	360480	79.4
Uganda	371789	450000	78211	21.0
Cambodia	3250000	365000	115000	46.0
Indonesia	330879	323150	-7729	-2.3
Nigeria	182264	304413	122149	67.0
United Republic of Tanzania	312040	281690	-30350	-9.7
Brazil	246101	243000	-3101	-1.3
Egypt	282099	237572	-44527	-15.8
Thailand	203200	231100	27900	13.7
Democratic Republic of the Congo	231772	230000	-17772	-0.8
Russian Federation	178403	216841	38438	21.5

(Source: FAO, 2010)