1.4.5. Total inland capture fisheries: major producers countries

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)

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