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Reading no. 2025/053

EnvironmentObserved data

Capture fisheries production declared by Pacific territories

327,210t

Pacific

New ZealandKiribatiPapua New GuineaAustraliaMicronesiaNauruMarshall IslandsVanuatu

Weight of capture fisheries catches, latest known year of each territory up to 2023: the top ten of the Pacific.

  1. New Zealand327,210
  2. Kiribati257,578
  3. Papua New Guinea250,388
  4. Australia228,057
  5. Micronesia165,348
  6. Nauru90,699
  7. Marshall Islands73,936
  8. Vanuatu69,321
  9. Tuvalu49,000
  10. Solomon Islands41,700

The first territory of the ranking, New Zealand, declares 327,210 tonnes of catches.

Observation

Method

World Bank indicator ER.FSH.CAPT.MT (FAO data), read for seventeen Pacific territories from 2018 to 2023. The latest published value of each is kept, then the ten highest are ranked.

Source

Nature

Observed data

Value read at the source and reproduced without processing.

Confidence

Medium

See also

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