The chart gives information of the number of fishermen in 5 different continents in millions for 2 decades starting at 1980.
Overall, from the chart it is noticeable to see that Asia was the dominant continent where its quantity of fishers rised dramatically while other continents were quite similar and their proportion remained stable throughout the period.
As can be seen from the statistics, the amount of fishermen in Asia witnessed a sharp increase, with well below 10 millions in the starting year, before reaching around 13 millions after a decade. By rising gradually, the number of Asian fishers had been boosted and almost reached a peak by the year 2000. However, despite the number of African fishermen is relatively small, Africa dipected slight growth from around 2 millions to well below 2.5 millions in the first year, before remaining constant at 2.5 millions for 20 years. Similarly, the quantity of North American fishermen revealed slight increase throughout the period, beginning with a bit above 1 million in 1980. Then, a stability was the case in the number of North American fishermen at around 1.5 for the next 2 decades.
Delving into details of South American fisheries, their amount remained stable for 2 decades at approximately one million, being a continent which owned stabalised fishermen. However, European fishermen were relatively low, standing around a million before falling to a small amount- about 0.5 million. Then, it rised to 1 million again, reaching the same quantity of the first year.