According to the latest State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture report by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), total global capture production reached 93.7 million metric tons, the second highest ever in 2011, following second to 93.8 million metric tons in 1996.
Global fishery production in marine waters for 2011 and 2012 amounted to around 82.6 million metric tons and 79.7 million metric tons, respectively.
Within these two years, 18 countries caught more than an average of one million metric tons per year, accounting for more than 76 percent of global marine catches, with eleven of these being Asian countries, including the Russian Federation, which fishes more in the Pacific than in the Atlantic.
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