Fish and fishery products

Fish and fishery products Synopsis

This document summarises more than four decades of statistics of apparent consumption of fish and fishery products based on supply/utilisation accounts for 223 countries, six continental aggregates, four economic groupings and world totals. Data is given for total and per capita supply in live weight on a yearly basis. Indicative nutritional values in terms of animal and total proteins are also provided. For 40 major food fish consuming countries, balances are provided for the supply in quantities and nutritional factors of eight main groups of species of similar biological characteristics. A section comprising descriptive and analytical graphs supplements the data.