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Country	Fishing Area	Unit	1950	1951	1952	1953	1954	1955	1956	1957	1958	1959	1960	1961	1962	1963	1964	1965	1966	1967	1968	1969	1970	1971	1972	1973	1974	1975	1976	1977	1978	1979	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
Merluccius merluccius Albania	37 - Mediterranean and Black Sea	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	71	65	83	98	96	67	105	562	238	454	400	300	227	293	185	340	341	330	380	200	384	473	267	280	275	275	336	280	286
Merluccius merluccius Algeria	37 - Mediterranean and Black Sea	(t)	900	500	900	700	500	700	900	500	500	600	600	400	500	500	700	400	700	700	500	900	600	702	844	760	880	898	850	950	1,192	1,739	2,160	2,520	2,900	2,922	2,944	2,960	1,139	2,081	1,806	828	850	650	900	1,000	1,200	1,115	1,154	1,012	1,310	1,681	3	196	209	31	22	12	44	193	96	307	288	383
Merluccius merluccius Belgium	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	400	200	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	0	100	100	200	200	200	200	100	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	351	658	356	240	152	165	300	236	219	176	223	226	157	136	139	136	163	172	183	116	105	76	42	54	76	92	117	124	91	72	106	94	83	79	72	51	69	52
Merluccius merluccius Bulgaria	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Merluccius merluccius Channel Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Merluccius merluccius Croatia	37 - Mediterranean and Black Sea	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1,057	1,589	1,230	1,129	929	828	935	650	583	557	624	460	678	870	920	980	702	840	690	777
Merluccius merluccius Cyprus	37 - Mediterranean and Black Sea	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	6	5	4	3	1	2	3	3	1	4	4	0	1	5	4	4	3	5	7	6	4	4	14	13	7	3	4	2	5	6	8	3	11	10	28	23	25	23	12	14	9
Merluccius merluccius Denmark	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	0	200	100	100	100	100	100	200	200	200	300	300	400	500	400	500	600	700	800	1,100	900	1,200	1,400	1,400	1,832	2,302	1,939	1,651	1,789	1,770	2,098	2,242	1,690	1,705	1,876	1,775	1,813	1,916	1,598	2,057	2,855	3,341	3,371	3,179	2,128	1,487	868	670	591	846	811	1,043	1,163	1,199	1,357	1,254	1,360	1,224	1,668	2,179	2,189	2,188
Merluccius merluccius Egypt	37 - Mediterranean and Black Sea	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	89	182	132	75	44	1	9	24	1	0	0	1	0	1	4	33	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Merluccius merluccius Faroe Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	4	14	1	6	5	5	0	2	6	1	2	7	5	9	67	21	20	7
Merluccius merluccius France	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	18,200	20,300	20,600	21,100	18,500	22,000	22,300	25,800	30,300	32,400	35,700	35,600	33,600	29,100	28,100	28,400	26,000	26,200	23,000	22,100	25,600	23,500	21,800	24,200	21,717	22,202	19,123	15,261	18,382	22,522	24,104	22,315	15,969	20,082	19,421	26,271	20,058	18,145	21,894	23,679	20,266	18,903	15,570	12,953	14,758	14,530	8,899	8,592	5,165	7,378	10,122	8,007	10,949	10,846	10,765	13,188	10,599	12,417	10,428	17,068	19,184	22,829
Merluccius merluccius France	37 - Mediterranean and Black Sea	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	100	0	0	0	0	720	639	500	500	1,268	1,948	1,776	1,714	2,222	1,747	2,565	2,463	2,288	2,277	1,566	1,587	1,658	1,568	2,216	1,877	1,761	3,694	4,275	4,006	1,955	1,775	1,423	1,423	1,423	1,782	1,513	2,022	2,663	2,452	1,292	1,020	1,031	1,331	1,965	3,210	1,968	1,233
Merluccius merluccius Germany	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	500	200	100	100	100	0	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	200	100	100	200	100	200	200	235	134	81	64	227	37	65	62	32	7	14	24	27	28	41	36	23	30	51	120	84	110	83	76	69	68	46	73	71	81	100	119	134	243	223	175	278	298
Merluccius merluccius Greece	34 - Atlantic, Eastern Central	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2,757	8,431	3,020	4,656	4,370	1,395	5,107	4,379	6	0	9,235	4,789	266	3	5	0	0	2	0	0	0	2	34	46	39	85	70	9	20	1	9	0	349	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Merluccius merluccius Greece	37 - Mediterranean and Black Sea	(t)	1,500	1,100	1,300	1,500	1,300	1,700	1,300	1,500	1,500	2,000	1,500	1,500	1,100	1,100	800	1,400	800	700	1,000	1,000	1,284	1,103	1,239	1,828	1,779	1,581	1,812	1,871	2,003	1,725	1,758	1,685	2,147	2,351	2,615	3,062	3,812	3,025	3,714	4,206	3,789	3,221	4,141	5,043	6,390	5,369	4,579	4,248	3,032	3,127	2,960	2,753	2,930	3,169	3,748	3,871	4,794	5,192	5,514	5,230	4,602	4,602
Merluccius merluccius Iceland	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	110	0
Merluccius merluccius Ireland	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	100	100	200	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	200	200	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	0	100	100	111	126	208	143	212	305	657	806	1,105	1,395	1,309	1,298	2,104	2,014	1,961	2,107	2,266	1,773	2,513	2,539	2,175	2,186	1,741	2,270	1,971	2,090	2,037	1,124	698	1,077	1,069	1,043	1,114	1,438	1,393	1,619	2,048	1,896
Merluccius merluccius Isle of Man	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	34	24	24	31	7	3	2	4	2	2	5	7	11	6	7	25	23	18	28	30	3	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Merluccius merluccius Israel	37 - Mediterranean and Black Sea	(t)	200	400	400	200	400	400	500	600	700	700	100	700	1,100	700	600	400	400	100	200	100	138	80	88	158	101	100	100	100	100	40	52	65	60	80	90	75	85	90	65	60	63	53	54	61	120	120	131	86	134	60	62	73	68	60	39	36	18	10	6	2	2	2
Merluccius merluccius Italy	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	211	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Merluccius merluccius Italy	34 - Atlantic, Eastern Central	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	150	0	116	718	922	196	902	2,090	286	685	1,502	1,679	1,950	1,139	66	0	0	0	371	0	0	0	0	1	539	1,459	1,398	717	17	10	5	6	2	0	0
Merluccius merluccius Italy	37 - Mediterranean and Black Sea	(t)	5,400	3,600	6,600	5,000	4,800	2,700	1,800	1,900	7,100	6,400	6,500	7,400	6,500	6,400	8,000	8,800	9,700	9,300	9,200	9,300	10,316	10,697	12,938	11,525	13,574	14,330	16,162	17,174	13,468	12,086	11,378	14,552	16,197	21,623	27,473	33,480	23,687	25,093	27,786	24,745	20,473	24,838	28,433	34,001	36,334	37,680	30,707	17,971	13,166	9,754	9,219	8,765	8,459	9,361	9,586	15,379	18,570	14,655	13,049	12,520	11,989	10,462
Merluccius merluccius Japan	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	690	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Merluccius merluccius Malta	37 - Mediterranean and Black Sea	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	6	14	11	8	11	40	17	15	10	12	114	9	11	7	9	4	2	1	1	1	1	2	4	5	6	6	0	0	0	0	7	5	9	2	11	6	11
Merluccius merluccius Montenegro	37 - Mediterranean and Black Sea	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	26	25	34	24	27	20
Merluccius merluccius Morocco	34 - Atlantic, Eastern Central	(t)	1,700	2,200	2,000	1,800	1,800	1,800	2,200	2,800	2,900	3,100	3,100	2,200	1,700	4,000	2,100	2,600	3,900	4,000	3,400	2,500	4,800	2,900	2,600	2,800	5,103	4,412	53	4,349	2,813	2,562	2,598	2,000	2,170	1,983	2,124	3,430	3,372	4,089	4,026	4,635	6,234	5,986	5,799	3,735	5,090	6,038	3,086	2,473	1,232	2,581	2,331	4,958	6,492	11,722	10,364	9,048	5,376	6,403	4,722	5,388	3,946	4,284
Merluccius merluccius Morocco	37 - Mediterranean and Black Sea	(t)	100	200	300	200	200	200	300	300	200	300	200	200	100	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	11	6	11	16	16	8	1	21	35	141	50	61	502	35	48	90	124	50	61	116	65	68	106	66	77	95	84	74	96	37	461	197	197	187	202	157	547	194	132	197	146	227
Merluccius merluccius Netherlands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	200	200	100	100	0	0	0	0	100	0	100	100	0	100	100	0	100	100	200	100	100	200	100	300	244	148	66	53	48	91	104	196	126	156	113	38	25	102	154	129	132	117	181	144	75	78	111	62	75	98	43	72	18	24	24	40	37	95	157	193	251	494
Merluccius merluccius Norway	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	100	100	100	200	100	200	500	400	400	400	300	500	600	800	800	700	1,000	721	434	627	430	419	439	453	344	384	272	377	428	277	322	358	397	669	817	872	887	589	783	938	981	825	609	693	635	534	608	642	882	1,179	1,294	1,608	1,693	1,677	2,285
Merluccius merluccius Poland	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	13	48	21	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Merluccius merluccius Portugal	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	9,000	11,200	13,800	14,800	13,700	13,600	10,400	11,900	14,700	12,300	14,100	13,000	6,400	9,600	9,000	10,400	8,300	7,600	7,200	6,600	9,300	8,000	8,700	15,300	7,833	9,422	7,924	5,489	4,406	5,257	6,300	5,408	6,813	7,311	5,022	5,448	7,863	6,912	5,510	3,131	3,094	3,587	4,620	3,273	2,685	3,109	2,636	2,198	2,346	3,103	3,058	3,030	2,616	2,256	2,084	2,396	2,310	2,077	2,124	2,222	2,432	2,271
Merluccius merluccius Portugal	34 - Atlantic, Eastern Central	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	406	0	13	844	71	99	168	211	573	1,807	1,430	862	972	642	126	126	1,041	687	357	986	380	217	114	3	2	264	371	210	1	28	128	0	11	65	66
Merluccius merluccius Romania	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Merluccius merluccius Serbia and Montenegro	37 - Mediterranean and Black Sea	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	13	22	20	21	19	17	18	18	18	19	16	0	0	0	0	0	0
Merluccius merluccius Slovenia	37 - Mediterranean and Black Sea	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	1	4	4	4	2	1	0	2	2	5	1	3	3	6	1	2	0	0
Merluccius merluccius Spain	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	63,900	77,900	70,200	61,500	64,600	98,100	58,900	68,800	63,500	63,200	68,400	72,800	70,800	65,000	79,800	74,800	73,200	76,700	69,600	65,700	76,100	24,800	58,200	63,000	61,898	63,995	58,898	41,009	21,735	33,633	26,791	25,322	28,986	31,781	45,397	35,640	33,370	33,495	31,629	20,353	18,212	22,022	23,757	21,015	20,001	27,168	18,076	20,161	20,057	22,931	24,856	12,137	13,410	14,854	21,874	22,107	22,608	13,043	21,814	22,189	23,743	24,856
Merluccius merluccius Spain	34 - Atlantic, Eastern Central	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	400	200	200	200	600	300	500	1,000	0	0	0	0	8,071	7,639	4,982	3,399	30	867	6,612	3,686	3,725	4,120	4,439	5,539	6,432	6,787	4,636	4,092	3,190	4,563	6,615	6,300	6,000	5,800	5,536	3,293	1,741	926	0	7	3,989	4,380	6,937	6,347	5,148	4,168	3,240	3,825	5,315	1,469
Merluccius merluccius Spain	37 - Mediterranean and Black Sea	(t)	1,000	4,000	4,400	4,200	4,200	4,500	4,900	5,200	4,800	5,200	4,600	4,200	3,600	4,300	4,300	3,500	3,400	4,100	4,100	3,200	4,617	5,861	4,500	2,800	3,400	2,547	2,676	3,167	4,782	3,778	4,885	4,291	5,254	5,643	5,290	5,156	5,939	5,668	4,618	4,627	4,500	4,300	4,100	4,000	3,800	3,600	3,400	2,850	5,402	5,497	6,327	7,015	4,706	3,895	4,163	4,363	4,766	3,823	4,451	5,818	4,002	4,061
Merluccius merluccius Sweden	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	1,500	1,100	1,000	1,000	900	1,100	1,100	900	1,100	500	500	600	700	1,000	400	300	600	600	600	400	400	300	300	400	373	411	347	284	203	339	224	111	114	78	103	114	84	78	71	74	139	241	201	200	170	69	45	33	26	27	34	63	51	55	72	71	61	61	182	75	70	84
Merluccius merluccius Syrian Arab Republic	37 - Mediterranean and Black Sea	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	89	92	95	75	70	63	78	70	84	83	63	104	85	104	107	94	130	134	129	128	250	300	125	110	87	52	63	70	86	110	62	65	46	52	49	40
Merluccius merluccius Tunisia	37 - Mediterranean and Black Sea	(t)	100	100	100	100	100	200	200	200	200	200	300	300	300	400	400	500	500	500	500	500	379	399	703	563	783	472	606	643	460	593	646	566	883	660	668	496	519	515	508	345	372	433	710	818	840	744	685	922	537	1,069	974	1,284	1,538	1,202	1,552	1,295	1,336	1,255	1,422	1,237	1,311	956
Merluccius merluccius Turkey	37 - Mediterranean and Black Sea	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1,200	0	0	0	0	0	2,000	1	3	0	0	6	18	0	3	4	4	0	5	2	0	3	0	0	0	0	108	0	0	71	583	3	1	150	25	15	5	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Merluccius merluccius Un. Sov. Soc. Rep.	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	100	0	0	0	100	400	300	1,600	368	146	0	245	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Merluccius merluccius United Kingdom	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	26,500	28,500	26,800	25,000	20,200	19,000	16,500	14,500	13,200	10,500	11,700	11,900	13,800	12,100	9,400	7,800	6,000	4,800	5,500	4,500	3,300	2,800	2,900	2,800	2,558	2,827	2,075	1,863	1,972	1,831	2,457	5,676	3,687	3,257	4,563	5,730	6,155	9,308	8,366	5,953	6,177	7,789	7,577	7,380	6,120	5,614	5,380	5,716	5,168	5,537	4,519	2,775	2,663	2,658	2,974	4,937	3,875	4,576	6,061	7,922	6,927	8,018
Merluccius merluccius Yugoslavia SFR	37 - Mediterranean and Black Sea	(t)	400	500	300	300	300	300	300	400	400	300	300	300	200	300	300	400	400	500	300	300	322	263	342	408	464	579	734	852	646	590	799	538	644	645	668	762	770	893	958	1,060	1,015	580	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total:			131,600	152,500	149,300	137,900	131,900	166,600	122,000	135,900	141,800	138,200	148,500	152,000	141,900	137,400	145,400	141,300	136,000	137,700	127,500	122,300	143,140	93,572	121,822	136,593	138,118	138,788	127,345	106,042	77,423	92,722	107,991	101,041	96,582	109,792	128,825	134,810	122,151	125,465	124,822	107,903	98,775	107,721	115,913	114,660	113,129	119,906	92,332	76,958	66,159	70,553	71,241	57,914	66,503	72,909	81,168	88,986	86,352	75,298	81,483	94,431	93,698	94,166

Note: If marine mammals and crocodiles are included in this list they are not accounted for in the Totals because they are reported in numbers and not in tonnes.

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