The chart gives information about the number of fishermen in 5 different continents, in millions, for 2 decades starting in 1980.
Overall, from the chart it is noticeable that Asia was the dominant continent where its quantity of fishers rose 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 million in the starting year, before reaching around 13 million after a decade. By rising gradually, the number of Asian fishers had been boosted by the year 2000 and almost reached a peak in the final year. However, despite the number of African fishermen is relatively small, Africa dipected slight growth from around 2 million to well below 2.5 million in the first year, before remaining constant at 2.5 million for 20 years. Similarly, the quantity of North American fishermen revealed a slight increase throughout the period, beginning with a bit above 1 million in 1980. Then, 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 at approximately one million throughout the whole span, being a continent which owned stabalised fishermen industry. However, European fishermen were relatively low, standing around one million, before falling to a small amount-about 0.5 million. Then, in 2000, it rised to 1 million again, reaching the same quantity like the first decade’s.