Tables

Table 1. Apparent consumption of fish and fishery products in Asia and the Pacific, average 1993-1995^1/

Countries	Catch	Non-food uses	Imports	Exports	Food supply	Population	Per caput supply
	x 1,000 t	x 1,000 t	x 1,000 t	x 1,000 t	x 1,000 t	millions	kg/year
A. EAST ASIA:
China Mainland Hong	23 987	980	701	1 050	22 658	1 187	19.1
Kong SAR Taiwan	227	29	428	287	343	6	56.8
Province of China	1 316	2	142	653	802	21	38.2
Japan	7 412	2 202	3 858	340	8 727	125	69.9
Korea, DPR	1 811	747	1	66	999	22	46.0
Korea, Rep.	2 679	327	434	531	2 256	44	50.7
Macau	1.8	0	17	2	16	0.4	38.1
Mongolia	0.1	0	1.5	0	1.6	2	0.7
Subtotal (A)	37 434	4 287	5 582	2 929	35 803	1 363	26.3
B. SOUTH ASIA:
Bangladesh	1 103	4	0	39	1 060	117	9.1
India	4 730	390	0.4	333	4 007	914	4.4
Maldives	90	4	0	52	34	0.2	139.8
Nepal	17	0	...	...	17	21	0.8
Pakistan	572	188	0	106	278	133	2.1
Sri Lanka	229	0	111	5	335	18	18.9
Subtotal (B)	6 740	586	112	535	5 731	1 203	4.8
C. SOUTHEAST ASIA:
Brunei Darussalam	3.7	0	4	0.3	8	0.3	26.5
Cambodia	108	...	4	30	83	10	8.5
Indonesia	3 916	23	15	580	3 328	195	17.1
Laos	30	0	0.7	...	31	5	6.6
Malaysia	1 192	211	318	235	1 074	20	54.5
Myanmar	831	109	0.3	17	706	44	15.9
Philippines	2 270	0	144	172	2243	66	33.8
Singapore	13	0	262	172	104	3	31.8
Thailand	3 554	1 226	746	1 581	1 494	58	25.9
Vietnam	1 117	27	...	119	970	72	13.4
Subtotal (C)	13 035	1 596	1 496	2 906	10 041	473	21.2
D. OCEANIA:
Australia	229	20	233	103	340	18	19.2
Cook Islands	1	0.2	0.4	0	1.2	0.02	61.6
Fiji	31	6	25	25	26	0.8	33.4
Fr. Polynesia	8	4	4	0.2	8	0.2	37.6
Kiribati	29	24	0.6	0.4	6	0.08	73.3
New Caledonia	3	0.5	2	2	4	0.2	19.9
New Zealand	525	14	21	456	78	4	22.2
Papua New Guinea	26	0	33	4	56	4	13.2
Samoa	1.6	0	6	0.01	7	0.2	45.7
Solomon Islands	56	1	0.03	44	12	0.4	33.5
Tonga	2	0	0.5	0.5	2.5	0.1	25.8
Vanuatu	3	0	1	0.01	4	0.2	24.8
Subtotal (D)	916	69	328	738	544	27	20.1
Total Asia-Pacific	58 125	6 538	7 518	7 108	52 119	3 066	16.9
LIFDCs2/	43 636	2 964	2 210	3 398	39 507	3 443	11.5
World	112 000	30 458	21 791	21 546	81 572	5 606	14.5

Notes: ^1/ FAO Fishery Statistics Yearbook 1996: Commodities, Vol. 83, Appendix I, pp. 165-168 (FAO, 1998a).
Note: ^2/ Low-income food-deficit countries.

Table 2. Numbers of fishers in Asia and the Pacific region^1/

Countries	Year	Full time	Part time	Occasional	Total
American Samoa	1994	41	50	50	141
Australia	1991				21 000
Bangladesh	1995	720 180	349 878	374 902	1 444 960
Brunei Darussalam	1995	891	1 995	...	2 886
Cambodia	1995				83 243
China Mainland	1995	5 071 940	6 356 715		11 428 655
- Hong Kong SAR	1995	21 600	6 350		27 950
Fiji	1994	30 000	22 500	7 000	59 500
Fr. Polynesia	1993	350	300	1 000	1 650
Guam	1990	60	350	150	560
India	1994	2 394 174	1 443 223	2 121 347	5 958 744
Indonesia	1995	1 169 526	902 938	390 773	4 568 0592/
Japan	1995				301 440
Kiribati	1990	2 000	4 500	12 000	18 500
Korea, DPR	1990				47 000
Korea, Rep.	1995	83 052	165 460	98 698	347 210
Laos	1990				15 000
Macau	1990				4 984
Malaysia	1995	82 200		(18 466)3/	100 666
Maldives	1995				21 932
Myanmar	1993	520 110	60 852	(28 000)3/	580 962
Nepal	1990	15 000			28 000
New Caledonia	1995	86	704	...	790
New Zealand	1992	4 838	4 219	...	9 057
Niue	1992	75	150	75	300
Pakistan	1995	207 491	182 423	...	389 914
Papua New Guinea	1990	400		(10 000)3/	10 400
Philippines	1995				990 872
Singapore	1995	587			587
Solomon Islands	1993				2 400
Sri Lanka	1994				125 000
Taiwan Province of China	1994	189 826	113 218	...	303 044
Thailand	1994	80 000	28 934	(330 000)3/	438 934
Tonga	1991	1 631	2 415	1 943	5 989
Tuvalu	1993	121	111	357	589
Vanuatu	1990			(300)3/	300
Vietnam	1995	2 610 000	420 000	...	3 030 000
Total		13 206 179	10 067 285	3 008 295	30 371 218

Notes: ^1/ FAO Fisheries Circular No. 929 (1997a), Table T-2.
^2/ Included unspecified status of 2 104 822.
^3/ Unspecified.

Table 3. Total value of international trade of major fishery commodity groups^1/ by countries in Asia and the Pacific

Country	Imports		Exports
	19862/	19963/	19862/	19963/
A. ASIA:
* Bangladesh	1	619 f4/	117 738	255 366 f
Brunei Darussalam	7 787	6 179 f	253	559
* Cambodia	...	7 581 f	...	22 502 f
* China Mainland	76 312 f	1 184 170	645 813 f	2 856 986
China Taiwan	204 630	612 945	1 421 967	1 810 033
Hong Kong SAR	624 726	1 928 143	417 868	647 569
* India	-	9 902 f	363 103	978 352
* Indonesia	26 315	113 427	340 619	1 678 222
Japan	6 593 515	17 023 945	897 851	709 445
* Korea, DPR	-	3 571 f	35 930 f	59 554 f
Korea, Rep.	117 079	1 057 511	1 171 111	1 512 992
Laos	...	1 063 f	-	171 f
Macau	10 914	18 150	7 684	2 578
Malaysia	126 598	344 655	132 547	326 692
* Maldives	-	-	16 138	48 858
* Mongolia	2 040 f	52	-	136
Myanmar	-	424 f	21 600 f	98 231 f
* Nepal	-	324 f	...	...
* Pakistan	102	84	97 037	140 745
* Philippines	19 019	139 468	200 099	436 542
Singapore	257 666	641 782	204 268	541 376
* Sri Lanka	30 971	64 867	22 660	66 547
Thailand	283 658	818 353	1 011 896	4 117 865
Vietnam	-	6 431 f	90 493 f	503 555 f
Subtotal (A)	8 381 333	22 983 646	7 216 675	16 814 876
B. OCEANIA:
Australia	226 960	475 102	326 691	797 726
Cook Islands	140 f	385 f	-	495
Fiji	13 917	19 881	16 235	47 517
Fr. Polynesia	6 907	5 671 f	29	289 f
* Kiribati	112	555 f	1 190	2 002 f
Marshall Islands	350 f	264 f	-	2 977 f
Micronesia	...	3 919 f	34 f	412 f
New Caledonia	3 414	7 065	1 380	9 559
New Zealand	22 379	58 763	344 393	816 495
N. Marianas	...	...	...	-
Palau	...	2 070 f	200	296 f
* Papua New Guinea	36 587	14 830 f	11 207	9 369 f
* Samoa	1 230 f	6 096 f	-	601 f
* Solomon Islands	808	113	30 977	30 301
Tonga	269	513 f	512	1 645
* Tuvalu	...	...	...	391 f
* Vanuatu	4 635 f	1 011 f	3 553	385 f
Subtotal (B)	317 708	596 238	736 401	1 720 460
GRAND TOTAL	8 699 041	23 579 884	7 953 076	18 535 336

Notes:

^1/ Including the following seven principal fishery commodity groups:

• fish, fresh, chilled or frozen;
• fish, dried, salted or smoked;
• crustaceans and molluscs, fresh, frozen, dried, salted, etc.;
• fish products and preparations;
• crustacean and mollusc products and preparations;
• oils and fats, crude or refined, of aquatic animal origin; and
• meals, solubles and similar animal feeding stuffs, or aquatic animal origin.

^2/ FAO (1989). FAO Fishery Statistics Yearbook, Vol. 65, Table A-6, pp. 30-33.
^3/ FAO (1998c). FAO Fishery Statistics Yearbook, Vol. 83, Table A-5, pp. 20-21.

4/ Symbols used:	f	= FAO estimate from available sources of information.
	...	= data not available
	-	= none, nil, negligible
	*	= Low-income food-deficit countries (LIFDCs).

Table 4. Fishery production by major fishing area in Asia and the Pacific

(x 1 000 tonnes)

Area	Year
	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990	1997
Asia - Inland waters (Area 04)	1 047	2 318	3 549	4 650	10 288	21 268
Oceania - Inland waters (Area 06)	0	0.7	1	10	24	24
Subtotal A	1 047	2 318	3 550	4 660	10 312	21 292
Western Indian Ocean (Fishing Area 51)	526	981	1 466	1 885	2 926	3 701
Eastern Indian Ocean (Area 57)	297	664	1 091	2 103	3 120	4 252
Northwest Pacific (Area 61)	4 027	8 957	11 936	18 078	25 030	36 205
Western Central Pacific (Area 71)	545	1 432	3 731	5 060	8 119	10 090
Eastern Central Pacific (Area 77)	3	19	109	144	225	139
Southwest Pacific (Area 81)	44	84	144	374	717	862
Subtotal B	5 442	12 137	18 478	27 643	40 137	55 249
Total Asia-Pacific (A + B)	6 489	14 455	22 028	32 303	50 449	76 541
Growth rate (% per year)	-	12.3	5.2	4.6	5.6	7.4
Total World	19 755	36 691	67 198	75 583	103 530	130 589
% Asia-Pacific	32.8	39.4	32.8	42.7	48.7	58.6

Source: FAO (1999). Fishstat Plus (v. 2.19).

Table 5. Fishery production by country in the Asia-Pacific region in 1987 and 1996^1/

(x 1 000 tonnes)

Country or area	Marine		Inland		Total		Av. annual change of total (±%)3/
	1987	1996	1987	1996	1987	1996
A. EAST ASIA:
* China Mainland	4 731	12 459	647	1 763	5 378	14 222	16.4
Hong Kong SAR	218	184	0	0	218	184	(-1.5)
Taiwan Province of China	935	967	2	...	937	967	0.3
Japan	10 989	5 871	130	94	11 119	5 964	(-4.6)
* Korea, DPR2/	2 700	328	...	...	2 700	328	(-8.8)
Korea, Rep.	2 351	2 406	47	8	2 399	2 414	0.1
Macau	4	1	0	0	4	1	(-6.0)
* Mongolia	-	-	...	...	...	...	(-3.9)
Subtotal (A)	21 928	22 216	856	1 865	22 755	24 080	0.6
B. SOUTH ASIA:
* Bangladesh	232	279	434	595	667	874	3.1
* India	1 679	2 841	455	651	2 134	3 492	6.4
* Maldives	57	106	-	-	57	106	8.5
* Nepal	-	-	5	11	5	11	11.3
* Pakistan	336	395	83	142	419	537	2.8
* Sri Lanka	149	210	32	15	181	225	2.4
Subtotal (B)	2 453	3 831	1 009	1 414	3 463	5 245	5.1
C. SOUTHEAST ASIA
Brunei Darussalam	4	7	...	...	4	7	8.9
* Cambodia	17	31	62	64	80	95	1.9
* Indonesia	1 931	3 385	276	344	2 207	3 730	6.9
* Laos	-859	-	22	26	22	26	1.8
Malaysia	541	1 127	1	4	860	1 131	3.2
Myanmar	1 404	636	139	169	680	805	1.8
* Philippines	15	1 606	245	184	1 649	1 790	0.9
Singapore	2 542	10	...	-	15	10	(-3.4)
Thailand	9	2 935	90	204	2 632	3 138	1.9
Vietnam		684	136	127	732	811	1.1
Subtotal (C)	7 909	10 421	981	1 122	8 881	11 543	3
D. OCEANIA:
Australia	193	190	2	2	195	192	(-0.1)
Cook Islands	1	1	0	...	1	1	(-0.8)
Fiji	31	28	3	3	35	31	(-1.1)
Fr. Polynesia	2	10	0	0	2	10	33.6
* Kiribati	36	25	0	-	36	25	(-3.1)
Marshall Islands	0	0	0	0	...	...	5
Micronesia	4	9	...	...	4	9	15.9
New Caledonia	5	3	0	0	5	3	(-4.6)
New Zealand	227	420	...	1	228	421	8.5
Palau	2	1	0	0	2	1	(-1.4)
* Papua New Guinea	11	13	14	14	26	26	0.2
* Samoa	3	1	0	0	3	1	(-7.7)
* Solomon Islands	45	53	0	0	45	53	1.9
Tonga	3	3	0	0	3	3	0.3
* Tuvalu	1	...	0	0	1	...	(-5.7)
* Vanuatu	3	3	0	0	3	3	(-1.6)
Subtotal (C)	567	760	19	20	589	779	3.2
Total Asia-Pacific	32 857	37 228	2 855	4 421	35 688	41 647	1.7
(A+B+C+D)
World Total	78 846	87 073	6 122	7 553	84 968	94 625	1.1
% Asia-Pacific	41.7	42.7	46.6	58.5	42	44

Notes:	1/ FAO (1998a). FAO Fishery Statistics Yearbook 1996, Vol. 82, Tables A-2, 3, 4, pp. 95-103.
	2/ Data obtained from the Ministry of Fisheries, DPRK (FAO, 1998d).
	3/ These average increases based on 1987 and 1996 data for comparison only. They are not representing actual annual growth rate of fisheries in the countries concerned.
	* Low-income food-deficit countries (LIFDCs).

Table 6. Aquaculture production in the Asia-Pacific region

(x 1 000 tonnes)

Country or area	Fish and Shellfish		Seaweeds		Total all Species
	19861/	19972/	19861/	19972/	1997
A. EAST ASIA:
China Mainland	3 579	19 316	1 288	4 715	24 031
Hong Kong SAR	9	8	-	-	8
Taiwan Province of China	257	258	9	12	270
Japan	693	807	610	533	1 340
Korea, DPR3/	...	70	1 075	419	489
Korea, Rep.	428	392	524	648	1 040
Subtotal (A)	4 966	20 851	3 506	6 327	27 178
B. SOUTH/SOUTHEAST ASIA:
Bangladesh	134	513	-	-	513
Cambodia	2	12	-	-	12
India	686	1 776	-	-	1 776
Indonesia	333	755	77	157	912
Laos	5	14	-	-	14
Malaysia	52	103	--	-	103
Myanmar	6	87	-	-	87
Nepal	4	12	-	-	12
Pakistan	8	22	-	-	22
Philippines	302	330	169	627	957
Singapore	1	4	-	-	4
Sri Lanka	4	7	-	-	7
Thailand	134	576	-	-	576
Vietnam	131	480	2	12	492
Subtotal (B)	1 802	4 691	248	796	5 487
C. OCEANIA:
Australia	9	27	-	-	27
New Zealand	17	73	-	-	73
Subtotal (C)	26	100	-	-	100
Total Asia-Pacific (A+B+C)	6 794	25 642	3 754	7 123	32 765
World Total	8 827	28 808	3 765	7 242	36 050
% Asia-Pacific	77	89	99.7	98.4	90.9

Notes:	1/ FAO (1997b). Aquaculture Production Statistics, 1986-1995. FAO, Rome. FAO Fisheries Circular No. 815, Revision 9.
	2/ FAO (1999d). Aquaculture Production Statistics, 1988-1997. FAO, Rome. FAO Fisheries Circular No. 815, Revision 11, 203 p.
	3/ Data obtained from the Ministry of Fisheries, DPRK (FAO, 1998d).

Table 7. Parameters of the trendlines fitted to relative rates of landings increase data, estimated maximum production and first year in which the maximum production is reached. The time series is shortened to 1951-1992 by the processes of calculation and smoothing (from Grainger and Garcia, 1996).

AREA (Years in regression)	Parameters a, bY=aX + b	R2	Max. prod. (106 t)	Fully fished in:
E.C. Atlantic (63-92)	-0.0065, 0.15	0.46**	4.3	1984
N.E. Atlantic (51-92)	-0.0012, 0.04	0.17*	11.6	1983
N.W. Atlantic (51-92)	-0.0024, 0.05	0.34**	3.9	1971
S.E. Atlantic (51-92)	-0.0044, 0.12	0.35**	3.2	1978
S.W. Atlantic (65-92)	-0.0028, 0.10	0.07(1)	0.8	1997(1)
W.C. Atlantic (51-92)	-0.0016, 0.07	0.14*	2.3	1987
E. Indian (51-92)	-0.0009, 0.08	0.08(1)	(10.2)	2037(1)
W. Indian (51-92)	-0.0006, 0.06	0.03(1)	(12.5)	2051(1)
Med. & B. Sea (51-92)	-0.0003, 0.03	0.01(1)	(2.2)	????
E.C. Pacific (71-92)	-0.0075, 0.12	0.33**	2.5	1988
N.E. Pacific (60-94)	-0.0037, 0.12	0.19*	4.1	1990
N.W. Pacific (51-92)	-0.0015, 0.07	0.32**	26.4	1998
S.E. Pacific (74-92) (.)	-0.0051, 0.14	0.11*	29.1	2001
S.W. Pacific (70-92)	-0.0068, 0.17	0.33**	1.1	1991
W.C. Pacific (51-92)	-0.0019, 0.10	0.34**	10.9	2003
Antarctica (65-77) (.)	-0.3027, 4.40	0.44**	(0.95)	1980
TOTAL	n.a.	n.a.	125.0	n.a.
N. Atlantic (51-92)	-0.0014, 0.04	0.38**	14.2	1980
Atlantic Total (51-92)	-0.0018, 0.06	0.51**	21.4	1983
N. Pacific (51-92)	-0.0016, 0.07	0.38**	29.5	1996
Pacific Total (51-92)	-0.0020, 0.10	0.29**	54.3	1999
Indian Total (51-92)	-0.0006, 0.07	0.06(1)	????	????
WORLD (51-92)	-0.0015, 0.07	0.42**	82.1	1999

** Subjective degree of reliability: reasonable.
* Subjective degree of reliability: less reasonable.
⁽¹⁾ This very low slope, probably not significant, indicates a quasi constant, long term increase in landings which may indicate that the maximum has not been reached. The extrapolation largely beyond the observed data to find the intersection date and a value of the potential is highly unreliable.
(.) Regression excluded years when major fisheries were not in operation.

Table 8. Comparison between estimated potentials of marine fishery resources and average landings during 1992-1996 by major fishing areas and by oceans (in million tonnes)^1/

Major Fishing Area	Estimated potential2/ (A)	Average landings 1992-963/(B)	Difference (A-B)	Status4/
51 Western Indian	13	3.9	9.1	I
57 Eastern India	10	3.6	6.4	I
61 Northwest Pacific	26	22.5	3.5	I
71 Western Central Pacific	11	8.7	2.3	I
77 Eastern Central Pacific	3	1.4	1.6	O
81 Southwest Pacific	1	0.8	0.2	O
Sum of Areas	64	40.9	23.1	I
Pacific Total	54	53.3	0.7	I-F
Indian Total	23	7.5	15.5	I
Sum of Oceans	77	60.8	16.2	I-F
World	82	83.8	-1.8	F

Notes:	1/ Adapted from Table 6 of Grainger and Garcia (1996).
	2/ See text, p.7.
	3/ FAO Fishery Statistics Yearbook Vol. 82, Table A-1 (a).
	4/ I: increasing; F: fully fished; and O: overfished (based on rates of increase in marine fishery production, 1951-1996).