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 * colspan=8 |TABLE 10-1
 * colspan=8 |World Fish Catch in major Fisheries 1979.-84
 * 1979
 * 1980
 * 1981
 * 1982
 * 1983
 * 1984
 * colspan=8 |(thousand tons)
 * N. Atlantic
 * 14,667
 * 14,676
 * 14,489
 * 13,597
 * 13,89l
 * 13,940
 * N. Pacific
 * 20,303
 * 20,733
 * 21,908
 * 22,603
 * 23,666
 * 26,416
 * Cent. Atlantic
 * 6,064
 * 6,867
 * 6,833
 * 7,239
 * 7,210
 * 7,164
 * Cent. Pacific
 * 7,536
 * 7,910
 * 8,478
 * 8,175
 * 7,848
 * 8,531
 * Indian Ocean
 * 3,541
 * 3,693
 * 3,728
 * 3,852
 * 4,061
 * 4,362
 * South Atlantic
 * 4,420
 * 3,095
 * 4,037
 * 4,340
 * 4,314
 * 3,957
 * South Pacific
 * 7,242
 * 6,619
 * 7,240
 * 8,328
 * 6,724
 * 8,684
 * Inland
 * 7,240
 * 7,603
 * 8,138
 * 8,455
 * 9,131
 * 9,716
 * Total*
 * 71,014
 * 71,996
 * 74,850
 * 76,590
 * 76,846
 * 82,770
 * Developed
 * 37,143
 * 38,234
 * 38,890
 * 39,265
 * 39,991
 * 42,412
 * Developing
 * 33,871
 * 33,758
 * 35,961
 * 37,326
 * 36,855
 * 40,358
 * Developing countries catch as per cent of world total
 * 47,7
 * 46,9
 * 48,0
 * 48,7
 * 48,0
 * 48,8
 * Colspan=8 |Columns do not add to totals due to rounding.
 * colspan=8 |Source: Based on data in FAO. Yearbooks of Fishery Statistics (Rome: 1979-84).
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 * 33,758
 * 35,961
 * 37,326
 * 36,855
 * 40,358
 * Developing countries catch as per cent of world total
 * 47,7
 * 46,9
 * 48,0
 * 48,7
 * 48,0
 * 48,8
 * Colspan=8 |Columns do not add to totals due to rounding.
 * colspan=8 |Source: Based on data in FAO. Yearbooks of Fishery Statistics (Rome: 1979-84).
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 * colspan=8 |Source: Based on data in FAO. Yearbooks of Fishery Statistics (Rome: 1979-84).
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29. Yet long-range industrial fishing fleets still catch about 5 million tons annually in developing regions. Off West Africa. for example. over half the total catch is still taken by such fleets. This is due partly to the fact that many of the biggest resources lie off thinly populated areas – the western edge of the Sahara and off Namibia. But it is also due to the common lack of locally available capital, and to a shortage of local expertise in many technical aspects of fisheries, especially processing and marketing.

30. Coastal developing countries can usually obtain some modest revenue in the form of licence fees, but this represents only a fraction of what they could earn from a full national use of the resource. Another 10-15 million Lone of so far underutilized or unexploited resources could be added to the existing fisheries /…