Medidas de Gestao das Pescarias Marinhas e Aquicultura 2019 The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2018 | Page 32

PART 1 WORLD REVIEW
TABLE 5
INLAND WATERS CAPTURE PRODUCTION: MAJOR PRODUCER COUNTRIES
Production (tonnes)
Country Average
2005–2014 2015
China 2 252 368 2 277 299
% Variation
2016 2005–2014
(average)
to 2016 2015 to
2016 Variation,
2015
to 2016
(tonnes)
2 318 046 2.9 1.8 40 747
a 1 088 082 1 346 104 1 462 063 34.4 8.6 115 959
Bangladesh 1 018 987 1 023 991 1 048 242 2.9 2.4 24 251
a 745 483 863 450 886 780 19.0 2.7 23 330
Cambodia 422 801 487 905 509 350 20.5 4.4 21 445
India
Myanmar
Indonesia 346 722 472 911 432 475 24.7 –8.6 –40 436
Uganda 417 016 396 205 389 244 –6.7 –1.8 –6 961
Nigeria 287 937 337 874 377 632 31.2 11.8 39 758
United Republic of
Tanzania 305 635 309 924 312 039 2.1 0.7 2 115
Russian Federation 243 337 285 065 292 828 20.3 2.7 7 763
Egypt 248 141 241 179 231 959 –6.5 –3.8 –9 220
Democratic Republic
of the Congo 224 263 227 700 229 300 2.2 0.7 1 600
Brazil a 243 213 225 000 225 000 –7.5 0.0 0
Mexico 113 854 151 416 199 665 75.4 31.9 48 249
Thailand 211 927 184 101 187 300 –11.6 1.7 3 199
Philippines 182 205 203 366 159 615 –12.4 –21.5 –43 751
Total 16 major
countries 8 351 970 9 033 490 9 261 538 10.9 2.5 228 048
Total other 136
countries 2 172 222 2 374 585 2 371 482 9.2 –0.1 –3 103
10 524 192 11 408 075 11 633 020 10.5 2.0 224 945
World total
Share of 16 major
countries
a
79.4%
79.2%
79.6%

Production figures for 2015 and 2016 are FAO estimates.
Most major producing countries show increased
catches in recent years, with the exception of Egypt,
the Philippines, Thailand and Uganda. Brazil, by
far the major producer in South America, has not
reported official catch data to FAO since 2014, so its
statistics have been estimated. million tonnes per year. Freshwater crustaceans
and freshwater molluscs had peaks in the early
2000s and mid-1990s, respectively, but after
periods of decreasing catches, they have been
relatively stable since 2010 at 0.45 and 0.36
million tonnes.
Concerning the major species groups in inland
waters, the group “tilapias and other cichlids”
has shown a continuous increase, reaching 1.6
million tonnes in 2016 and doubling the 2005
catches. The group “carps, barbels and other
cy prinids”, which exceeded the former group in
2005, has kept steady at between 0.7 and 0.8 FAO is currently evaluating options for
establishing an approach to inland fisher y
assessment that would enable member countries
to track key fisheries, which would assist in
global monitoring of inland fisher y resources as
well as in the development of appropriate
national policy and management measures. n
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