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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9356
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/fisheries

Mediterranean catches fall by 28% over eleven-year period

Brussels, 31/01/2007 (Agence Europe) - On 11 January Eurostat published data demonstrating that catches in the Mediterranean Sea had fallen by 28% between 1993 (670,000 tonnes) and 2004 (480,000 t). In 2004, the Mediterranean was the third main EU25 fishing zone, with 8% of total catches, after the North East Atlantic (4.3 million t, 72%) and Eastern Central Atlantic (571,000 t, 10%). Italy had the highest volume of catches, with 254,298 t (mainly anchovies and clams), followed by Spain...

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