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TABLE 10-1
World Fish Catch in major Fisheries 1979.-84
	1979	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984
(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
Columns do not add to totals due to rounding.
Source: Based on data in FAO. Yearbooks of Fishery Statistics (Rome: 1979-84).

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.^[1] 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

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1. Dr J. Gulland, Marine Resources Assessment Group, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, personal communication, 20 January 1987.