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Table 6 World chondrichthyan production by product in tonnes

PRODUCT	1976	1977	1978	1979	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986
Sharks, fresh or chilled	2	43	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	13	14
Sharks, frozen	12 019	14 579	16 735	19 406	15 841	16 857	19 714	19 578	21 367	20 160	20 334
Skates, frozen	461	593	663	759	1 173	664	880	1 064	981	1 450	2 318
Sharks, rays, chimaeras nei, frozen	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7
Shark fillets, fresh or chilled	-	1 257	1 087	1 285	1 170	11	248	86	312	523	928
Shark fillets, frozen	139	102	125	2 560	2 401	1 205	3 297	3 817	4 197	2 537	1 179
Sharks, dried, salted or in brine	4 713	5 963	4 096	4 112	1 531	8 503	9 367	9 079	6 796	5 938	7 076
Sharks, rays, etc., dried, salted or in brine	648	2 350	1 510	730	870	825	4 373	3 770	1 888	2 302	2 683
Shark fins, dried, salted, etc.	407	492	439	363	297	363	446	534	411	512	611
Shark fins, dried, unsalted	1 400	1 318	1 217	1 334	1 569	568	578	611	504	3 233	2 151
Shark liver oil	497	724	522	355	255	141	158	143	149	113	82
Total	20 286	27 421	26 394	30 904	25 107	29 137	39 061	38 682	36 608	36 781	37 383

Table 6 World chondrichthyan production by product in tonnes (continued)

PRODUCT	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997
Sharks, fresh or chilled	3	-	-	6	-	1	-	146	-	159	276
Sharks, frozen	21 231	28 028	22 067	24 352	31 065	37 348	40 416	37 606	40 324	34 068	37 558
Skates, frozen	2 783	2 184	2 076	12 871	26 471	5 731	6 577	6 218	3 632	3 200	3 043
Sharks, rays, chimaeras nei, frozen	13	840	383	577	947	707	1 354	125	401	290	1 630
Shark fillets, fresh or chilled	3 792	425	1 087	2 864	1 836	1 680	1 331	991	924	940	2 600
Shark fillets, frozen	787	2 629	2 000	2 626	3 434	7 483	8 066	8 833	8 302	5 968	4 181
Sharks, dried, salted or in brine	6 785	6 572	6 849	6 729	6 751	9 967	10 815	11 054	12 804	15 829	19 916
Sharks, rays, etc., dried, salted or in brine	4 532	3 655	5 047	4 379	488	388	2 270	523	569	60	140
Shark fins, dried, salted, etc.	863	1 284	4 624	4 190	3 021	3 452	3 581	3 351	3 722	2 915	3 092
Shark fins, dried, unsalted	1 343	4 108	1 799	1 592	1 373	1 048	2 714	900	1 005	1 142	2 938
Shark liver oil	45	42	31	35	53	41	31	39	1	11	4
Total	42 177	49 767	45 963	60 221	75 439	67 846	77 155	69 786	71 684	64 582	75 378

Source: FAO - FIDI.

Table 7 World chondrichthyan production by country in tonnes

COUNTRY	1976	1977	1978	1979	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986
Pakistan	4 267	4 669	3 200	3 311	1 322	7 129	7 750	8 218	4 125	4 323	5 170
Spain	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
USA	-	1 247	1 087	3 286	3 151	953	3 225	2 492	3 455	2 921	2 040
Japan	8 596	8 905	8 376	8 875	9 541	9 360	13 565	15 559	14 044	13 409	13 950
Mexico	-	1 823	4 383	5 877	3 028	3 920	2 702	1 613	2 630	3 309	2 404
Taiwan PC	443	454	435	388	263	217	206	175	152	2 808	1 655
Indonesia	277	87	134	186	179	225	249	334	232	329	444
New Zealand	68	75	46	517	416	263	243	196	146	72	51
Chile	8	14	31	342	784	529	249	257	276	593	815
China	-	-	1	8	3	9	40	40	31	35	91
Korea Rep.	61	114	252	95	167	78	49	98	82	50	35
Canada	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Uruguay	722	341	315	11	5	-	235	196	828	308	422
Argentina	400	400	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
UK	836	1 687	2 113	1 863	1 656	1 189	1 331	615	996	1 727	788
Peru	360	695	599	772	1 047	2 008	1 820	1 118	1 577	964	2 383
Portugal	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	613
Singapore	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Norway	2 651	2 767	1 837	2 941	969	550	430	444	505	675	490
India	104	143	154	190	163	212	112	105	144	96	115
South Africa	100	100	586	405	241	889	919	725	950	544	557
Iceland	-	-	200	100	100	108	127	136	95	104	80
Denmark	90	180	71	56	100	88	129	1 222	384	122	139
Senegal	4	76	241	193	142	91	4	15	37	-	7
Colombia	45	648	356	417	178	316	600	546	2 307	474	860
Madagascar	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Philippines	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Maldives	8	20	25	20	37	40	99	76	85	71	49
Greece	-	-	-	-	-	-	106	75	82	99	77
Faeroe Is.	279	198	126	175	527	254	312	380	373	291	411
Hong Kong	20	26	16	15	9	10	8	9	6	3	4
Italy	-	-	-	-	-	-	194	162	1 187	817	1 119
Brazil	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	170	141
Fiji Is.	-	40	56	32	54	42	41	8	8	11	10
Sri Lanka	61	61	-	-	-	-	3 582	3 116	726	676	707
Ireland	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	67	170	197	211
Lithuania	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Bangladesh	-	58	68	36	-	-	31	48	49	48	50
Australia	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Guatemala	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
France	197	207	139	158	204	60	73	88	93	236	275
Thailand	634	2 300	1 470	550	740	520	520	490	800	1 240	1 180
Yemen	-	51	77	82	81	74	105	55	33	59	40
Côte d'Ivoire	55	35	-	3	-	3	5	4	-	-	-
Total	20 286	27 421	26 394	30 904	25 107	29 137	39 061	38 682	36 608	36 781	37 383

Table 7 World chondrichthyan production by countries in tonnes (continued)

COUNTRY	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997
Pakistan	5 352	5 545	5 567	5 546	6 305	9 333	10 078	10 478	12 671	15 671	19 064
Spain	-	-	-	-	-	991	3 409	2 800	4 500	6 700	12 100
USA	4 489	2 413	2 989	6 643	6 908	12 961	11 305	12 189	14 973	12 748	10 169
Japan	13 562	14 658	10 015	8 094	10 416	11 796	12 197	10 718	6 852	7 464	8 401
Mexico	2 469	3 951	3 110	4 859	3 996	4 556	4 644	4 678	3 378	3 525	4 217
Taiwan PC	644	3 486	2 221	2 430	2 301	2 398	2 773	1 027	1 932	1 824	3 736
Indonesia	573	473	517	558	494	3 382	8 853	6 010	8 995	1 674	3 030
New Zealand	52	2 665	1 467	1 939	5 386	3 072	3 358	4 798	3 684	3 683	2 698
Chile	841	1 330	1 799	1 327	1 809	2 231	1 805	2 501	2 669	2 700	2 597
China	235	463	563	809	732	1 200	1 200	1 400	1 500	2 192	2 420
Korea Rep.	16	1 117	302	662	1 003	692	1 250	117	504	307	1 675
Canada	-	1 627	824	1 421	1 229	1 014	1 257	1 427	1 866	1 293	1 234
Uruguay	188	92	10	31	244	334	18	200	282	413	888
Argentina	-	-	-	-	-	864	1 210	1 392	958	920	669
UK	1 498	1 023	1 099	898	1 129	1 060	183	547	1 064	620	605
Peru	2 117	1 504	2 522	1 360	599	617	952	333	549	368	316
Portugal	1 654	982	397	11 308	23 301	1 483	1 933	1 735	853	258	263
Singapore	-	21	28	23	-	25	-	-	-	-	260
Norway	268	283	443	496	655	462	379	360	325	308	228
India	118	158	3 433	2 865	1 696	1 458	1 438	1 442	1 400	245	211
South Africa	881	697	884	1 356	284	284	192	279	124	218	201
Iceland	-	-	5	25	6	75	515	9	36	17	93
Denmark	218	346	439	180	221	260	184	116	42	76	83
Senegal	71	-	-	35	294	93	65	50	524	443	43
Colombia	685	475	645	618	245	545	223	200	131	140	40
Madagascar	3	14	12	7	15	29	105	48	24	14	38
Philippines	-	-	-	-	9	36	33	13	36	42	34
Maldives	60	40	31	40	53	52	29	17	18	31	31
Greece	133	121	108	87	64	131	75	64	102	87	24
Faeroe Is.	369	336	398	335	956	817	719	48	26	41	10
Hong Kong	4	4	3	1	1	2	1	0	0	0	0
Italy	1 410	1 640	1 875	2 091	4 232	4 856	4 116	4 116	334	250	-
Brazil	176	217	165	161	190	277	373	235	233	192	-
Fiji Is.	6	25	14	24	21	69	17	5	110	62	-
Sri Lanka	245	250	275	260	254	283	1 979	350	404	48	-
Ireland	298	214	134	-	27	36	-	-	40	8	-
Lithuania	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	16	330	-	-
Bangladesh	28	31	61	47	78	65	238	45	212	-	-
Australia	-	-	7	10	273	5	24	5	3	-	-
Guatemala	-	-	-	-	-	-	25	18	-	-	-
France	69	46	41	9	13	2	-	-	-	-	-
Thailand	3 361	3 450	3 500	3 500	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Yemen	84	70	60	166	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Côte d'Ivoire	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Total	42 177	49 767	45 963	60 221	75 439	67 846	77 155	69 786	71 684	64 582	75 378

Source: FAO - FIDI.

Table 8 World chondrichthyan exports by product in tonnes

PRODUCT	1976	1977	1978	1979	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986
Dogfish (Squalus spp.), fresh or chilled	2 999	2 824	3 103	2 413	2 100	1 365	1 322	1 688	1 499	1 382	1 346
Sharks, fresh or chilled	4 686	4 906	5 403	5 001	4 039	4 180	3 891	6 181	9 029	14 932	15 065
Skates, fresh or chilled	87	69	53	95	116	87	69	87	117	169	165
Sharks, rays, skates, fresh or chilled, nei	-	-	-	-	1	6	-	9	336	19	125
Dogfish (Squalus spp.), frozen	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sharks, frozen	5 742	5 895	6 620	6 486	6 282	7 951	7 389	7 379	8 759	5 889	6 534
Skates, frozen	264	388	331	336	518	332	266	417	443	704	593
Sharks, rays, chimaeras nei, frozen	661	336	488	347	303	401	339	508	845	704	597
Shark fillets, fresh or chilled	31	175	-	3	18	4	20	1	1
Dogfish (Squalus spp.) fillets, frozen	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Shark fillets, frozen	3 099	1 972	2 447	4 319	2 697	2 860	3 405	4 624	3 932	2 116	3 255
Sharks, rays, chimaeras, etc. fillets, frozen	5	4	4	13	7	4	8	4	1	4	20
Sharks, dried, salted or in brine	25	46	3	9		2
Sharks, rays, etc., dried, salted or in brine	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	67	1
Shark fins, dried, salted, etc.	1 282	1 331	1 836	1 334	1 765	1 794	1 952	2 045	1 962	1 893	2 118
Shark fins, dried, unsalted	1 384	1 252	1 303	1 335	1 243	1 486	1 435	2 204	1 763	1 338	1 363
Shark liver oil	5	0	6	9	9	25	79	79	302	992	31
Total	20 270	19 198	21 597	21 700	19 098	20 497	20 175	25 226	28 989	30 209	31 213

Table 8 World chondrichthyan exports by product in tonnes (continued)

PRODUCT	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997
Dogfish (Squalus spp.), fresh or chilled	1 823	2 426	3 408	6 173	6 332	4 588	4 698	3 033	4 077	3 599	2 100
Sharks, fresh or chilled	17 900	15 939	10 387	11 860	12 079	11 911	16 928	17 286	13 878	14 663	13 165
Skates, fresh or chilled	222	78	33	39	40	153	295	440	830	925	933
Sharks, rays, skates, fresh or chilled, nei	12	-	10	252	1 563	2 829	1 357	1 167	600	324	737
Dogfish (Squalus spp.), frozen	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	705	1 443	1 196
Sharks, frozen	7 906	10 261	10 066	14 191	20 891	21 745	26 149	24 382	34 406	28 368	34 974
Skates, frozen	337	215	338	338	490	383	344	326	275	314	329
Sharks, rays, chimaeras nei, frozen	452	1 529	1 503	1 477	1 856	864	1 354	125	401	290	1 640
Shark fillets, fresh or chilled	42	128	20	8	88	93	101	105	64	96	109
Dogfish (Squalus spp.) fillets, frozen	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	54	-	-
Shark fillets, frozen	3 490	4 570	4 406	4 177	3 728	3 637	3 413	3 210	2 661	3 013	3 076
Sharks, rays, chimaeras, etc. fillets, frozen	26	5	1	15	72	127	121	127	358	430	316
Sharks, dried, salted or in brine	6	8	1	1	20	1	-	-	-	-	-
Sharks, rays, etc., dried, salted or in brine	2	22	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Shark fins, dried, salted, etc.	2 887	3 230	4 122	3 258	3 749	3 688	3 722	3 579	2 117	4 850	5 170
Shark fins, dried, unsalted	1 452	1 292	1 359	1 083	1 033	945	933	1 080	943	1 351	1 097
Shark liver oil	36	429	18	29	214	234	113	66	129	100	137
Total	36 593	40 132	35 672	42 901	52 155	51 198	59 528	54 926	61 498	59 766	64 979

Source: FAO - FIDI.

Table 9 World chondrichthyan exports by product in US$ 1 000

PRODUCT	1976	1977	1978	1979	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986
Dogfish (Squalus spp.), fresh or chilled	3 703	3 681	4 695	4 581	4 951	2 823	2 311	2 334	1 956	1 454	2 163
Sharks, fresh or chilled	5 408	5 767	7 755	9 068	9 134	8 597	7 143	9 588	11 686	16 927	25 995
Skates, fresh or chilled	87	75	66	129	160	140	110	128	127	159	193
Sharks, rays, skates, fresh or chilled, nei	-	-	-	-	2	14	1	6	201	421	193
Dogfish (Squalus spp.), frozen	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sharks, frozen	6 687	7 613	10 208	11 614	14 194	19 688	19 037	18 156	19 874	10 033	16 631
Skates, frozen	229	306	316	379	689	464	362	532	379	478	654
Sharks, rays, chimaeras nei, frozen	494	290	525	492	454	478	399	556	702	546	459
Shark fillets, fresh or chilled	51	302	-	7	46	14	106	53	3	1	-
Dogfish (Squalus spp.) fillets, frozen	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Shark fillets, frozen	5 403	3 512	5 060	9 790	6 730	6 491	8 839	11 545	10 572	3 746	8 676
Sharks, rays, chimaeras, etc. fillets, frozen	3	4	3	6	16	3	8	3	1	3	35
Sharks, dried, salted or in brine	11	58	2	9	-	41	-	-	-	-	-
Sharks, rays, etc., dried, salted or in brine	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	95	4
Shark fins, dried, salted, etc.	5 473	8 012	9 376	10 559	16 435	20 511	25 159	28 111	26 984	25 562	26 600
Shark fins, dried, unsalted	7 491	11 246	12 563	11 973	11 839	15 415	15 208	14 954	15 307	13 030	13 571
Shark liver oil	3	0	20	10	15	88	278	413	1 127	5 004	174
Total	35 043	40 866	50 589	58 617	64 665	74 767	78 961	86 379	88 919	77 459	95 348

Table 9 World chondrichthyan exports by product in US$ 1 000 (continued)

PRODUCT	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997
Dogfish (Squalus spp.), fresh or chilled	2 968	3 641	4 198	7 830	9 072	6 769	6 925	4 656	7 123	6 647	4 090
Sharks, fresh or chilled	36 062	35 685	28 579	36 879	36 903	36 009	44 131	43 276	35 422	36 910	33 055
Skates, fresh or chilled	291	58	27	35	78	196	453	837	1 595	2 071	1 957
Sharks, rays, skates, fresh or chilled, nei	18	-	20	140	1 124	2 425	2 549	2 494	1 538	1 078	2 025
Dogfish (Squalus spp.), frozen	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	833	1 788	1 364
Sharks, frozen	25 078	23 769	24 510	39 146	54 109	50 983	49 621	48 513	72 636	70 112	73 648
Skates, frozen	465	289	448	497	661	542	515	639	726	669	543
Sharks, rays, chimaeras nei, frozen	301	1 363	2 488	1 964	3 540	1 850	1 629	409	454	351	1 821
Shark fillets, fresh or chilled	149	544	65	36	336	398	284	405	281	482	356
Dogfish (Squalus spp.) fillets, frozen	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	115	-	-
Shark fillets, frozen	12 659	14 041	13 774	16 909	18 979	16 535	13 036	13 392	10 859	13 319	11 955
Sharks, rays, chimaeras, etc. fillets, frozen	60	11	2	29	192	355	302	305	848	1 079	643
Sharks, dried, salted or in brine	19	129	19	11	384	4	-	-	-	-	-
Sharks, rays, etc., dried, salted or in brine	15	29	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Shark fins, dried, salted, etc.	43 885	55 080	53 066	50 288	62 222	68 808	66 584	76 726	26 327	56 580	65 373
Shark fins, dried, unsalted	19 485	24 468	26 794	22 501	26 191	37 562	29 559	26 040	30 996	29 019	24 999
Shark liver oil	114	1 376	150	216	1 688	2 009	899	515	1 088	766	1 244
Total	141 569	160 483	154 140	176 481	215 479	224 445	216 487	218 207	190 841	220 871	223 073

Source: FAO - FIDI.