Europa World: The Europa World Year Book online Routledge -- Taylor & Francis group
 
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Fishing

Argentina: Fishing

('000 metric tons, live weight)

  2004  2005  2006 
Capture  945.9*  931.3  1,182.2 
  Southern blue whiting  50.2  36.7  31.3 
  Argentine hake  416.7  362.0  353.2 
  Patagonian grenadier  116.9  115.3  124.3 
  Argentine red shrimp  27.1  7.5  44.4 
  Patagonian scallop  49.2  39.5  80.0 
  Argentine shortfin squid  76.5  146.1  291.9 
Aquaculture  1.8  2.4  2.5 
Total catch  947.8*  933.8  1,184.7 
* FAO estimate
Note: The data exclude aquatic plants (metric tons, capture only): 3 in 2000. Also excluded are aquatic mammals, recorded by number rather than by weight. The number of La Plata River dolphins caught was 900 in 2004; nil in 2005; nil in 2006.
Source: FAO

Citation: Fishing (Argentina), in Europa World online. London, Routledge. Retrieved 21 November 2008 from http://www.europaworld.com/pub/entry/ar.ss.29

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