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TUNA A global perspective
Food and Agriculture Organizationof the United Nations (FAO)FAO FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE DEPARTMENTTUNAA global perspectiveTuna and tuna-like species are a significant source of nutritious food and livelihoods. They are very important economically to both developed and developing countries. They include approximately 40 species occurring in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans and in the Mediterranean Sea. Their annual global production has tended to increase continuously, from less than million tonnes in 1950 to almost million tonnes in 2010. In that year, the catch of the most important economically species (so-called principal market species) was million value at-landing of the 2010 catch of the principal species was more than US$10 billion. The species are landed in numerous locations around the world by fishing vessels from more than 85 countries, traded globally (about 8% of international trade of seafood products) and processed and consumed around the world.
The following databases with tuna statistics can be accessed from the FAO website. The first two are specifically for tuna and some other tuna-like species, but the other ones are for
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