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| | | Capture fisheries production |
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|  Total capture fisheries production in 1998 contributed 74% of the global fishery production of 117.2 million tonnes. It amounted to 86.3 million tonnes, a noticeable decline with respect to record-high capture fisheries production of about 93 million tonnes in 1996 and 1997, although there was considerable recovery to an estimated 92 million tonnes in 1999. In 1998 China was the leading producing country followed by Japan, the United States, the Russian Federation, Peru, Indonesia, Chile and India, accounting together for more than half of the entire 1998 capture fisheries production in volume terms. | | | | Although in decline (-9% compared to 1997), marine capture fisheries continued to account for more than 90% of world capture fisheries production, the rest coming from inland water fisheries, which have increased by almost 0.5 million tonnes per year since 1994. At current values, the estimated first sale of the landings also decreased from about US$ 94 billion in 1996 and 1997 to US$ 86 billion in 1998. | | | | Most of the decline in the world's marine fishery landings in 1998 can be attributed to changes in the Southeast Pacific, which was severely affected by El Niño 1997-98. Total capture fish production from this area dropped from 17.1 million tonnes in 1996 to 14.4 million tonnes in 1997 and further to 8 million tonnes in 1998. This is a 15 and 44% annual decline in two consecutive years for one of the most important fishing areas of the world. Except for the Southeast Atlantic, the Southwest Pacific and the Western Central Pacific, that showed a positive trend in catches in recent years, all other major areas of the world showed little change or a decline. The Northwest Pacific had the largest reported landings in 1998 followed by the Northeast Atlantic and Western Central Pacific. | | | | Alaska pollock from the North Pacific has the highest landings in 1998. This, again, is unusual as anchoveta generally exceeds this quantity and Chilean jack mackerel equals it. However the fisheries for both these species was severely affected in 1998. Alaska pollock catches have fallen since 1996 by 0.5 million tonnes and a general decline in production continues since the mid-1980s when landings exceeded 6 million tonnes. | | | | Some major fluctuations for individual species have been recorded over the last three years. Of particular relevance are the increase in landings between 1997 and 1998 in some of the thirty top-producing species, such as the Patagonian grenadiers (up 285%), blue whiting (up 67%), Japanese Spanish mackerel (up 51%), South-American pilchard (up 30%) and Japanese anchovy (up 26%). However, overall the increase in production of these and other species has been outweighed by the decline in production of other species, and particularly some major top-producing species, such as anchoveta (down 78%), Chilean jack mackerel (down 44%), capelin (down 38%), Japanese flying squid (down 37%), Argentine shortfin squid (down 33%), Atlantic horse mackerel (down 22%) and chub mackerel (down 21%). | | | | The FAO database on world capture fishery production prepares the FAO Yearbook of Fishery Statistics - Capture Production, presenting an array of data of volume of nominal catches, for recent years by country, species and major fishing areas. | | | | |
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