The table provides information of trends for captures of marine fish in 8 different parts of the world over a ten-year period from 1989-1991 to 1999-2001.
Overall, the report shows more than half the regions experienced increases in the number of fish captures over the decade, while a few is noted to have dropped their catch intake.
In the Asia region, excluding Middle East, Asia continues to dominate over other regions with the significantly rise in captures from 25,427 to 28,102. Apart from this, other regions experience a slight increase in the total amount of catches. Middle East and North Africa saw an increase from 1,622 to 2,343, while Sub-Saharan Africa went from 2,169 to 3,140 captures. Likewise, South America went up from 14,382 to 15,235, and Oceania from 602 to 944 catches.
Conversely, the captures in Europe, however, plummet from 18,032 to 14,315, pushing it down to the third highest region with the most captures over the decade. Other regions such as, North America and Central America with the Caribbean, also slightly drop from 5,069 to 3,995 and 1,445 to 1,377, respectively.