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FAO Capture Production in Faeroe Islands (t) n = 103
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Scientific name	Fishing Area	Unit	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
Aequipecten opercularis Faroe Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	3,989	4,053	2,366	3,659	4,055	4,512	5,237	4,970	2,851	3,115	4,771	4,216
Alepocephalus bairdii Faroe Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ammodytes spp Faroe Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	8,513	0	18,549	5,168	3,476	0	0	2,448	2,385	1,390	1,327	0
Anarhichas lupus Faroe Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	0	272	253	440	433	360	362	282	171	175	128	112
Anarhichas spp Faroe Islands	21 - Atlantic, Northwest	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	6	0	0	0	0	10	1
Anarhichas spp Faroe Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	154	99	78	159	175	281	267	260	342	260	340	323
Aphanopus carbo Faroe Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	116	407	1,364	1,496	973	649	769	719	994	1,317	969	518
Argentina spp Faroe Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	6,388	9,572	7,058	6,264	3,441	7,055	12,576	14,339	15,921	18,193	18,627	19,233
Balaenoptera acutorostrata Faroe Islands	99 - All areas (World total)	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Beryx spp Faroe Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	0	2	0	0	0	7	0	0	0	1	0	6
Brachyura Faroe Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	6	1	0	11	0	0	89	102	169	154	188	195
Brosme brosme Faroe Islands	21 - Atlantic, Northwest	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Brosme brosme Faroe Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	2,585	3,056	2,307	2,369	3,150	3,059	4,025	3,638	4,345	4,244	5,890	5,121
Buccinum undatum Faroe Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	0	0	0	0	133	391	494	180	0	0	91	0
Centrophorus squamosus Faroe Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	0	0	1	7	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0
Centroscymnus coelolepis Faroe Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	0	6	4	6	1	7	0	2	3	0	0	0
Clupea harengus Faroe Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	65,270	34,516	34,663	28,370	50,106	71,878	71,840	63,332	78,317	94,538	87,575	72,952
Coryphaenoides rupestris Faroe Islands	21 - Atlantic, Northwest	(t)	23	4	1	0	0	3	1	0	0	0	0	0
Coryphaenoides rupestris Faroe Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	53	96	178	521	529	491	954	852	681	327	242	70
Cyclopterus lumpus Faroe Islands	21 - Atlantic, Northwest	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Cyclopterus lumpus Faroe Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	30	0	0	1
Elasmobranchii Faroe Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	0	13	54	87	56	98	69	50	54	23	18	14
Epigonus telescopus Faroe Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Eutrigla gurnardus Faroe Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	12	15	7	2	1
Gadiformes Faroe Islands	21 - Atlantic, Northwest	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
Gadiformes Faroe Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	0	948	1,246	941	683	2,728	303	717	677	1,444	2,963	2,205
Gadus morhua Faroe Islands	21 - Atlantic, Northwest	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	7	2	0	1	25	1,190	2,242
Gadus morhua Faroe Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	32,601	39,762	55,724	58,029	45,941	35,748	30,751	28,141	27,102	27,283	31,813	26,583
Gadus ogac Faroe Islands	21 - Atlantic, Northwest	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Globicephala melas Faroe Islands	99 - All areas (World total)	(n)	588	918	626	503	1,010	302	0	0	0	99	0	0
Glyptocephalus cynoglossus Faroe Islands	21 - Atlantic, Northwest	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Glyptocephalus cynoglossus Faroe Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	0	1	1	3	18	29	26	20	14	6	2	3
Hippoglossoides platessoides Faroe Islands	21 - Atlantic, Northwest	(t)	2	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	12	0	0
Hippoglossus hippoglossus Faroe Islands	21 - Atlantic, Northwest	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	2
Hippoglossus hippoglossus Faroe Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	318	247	394	382	497	513	463	405	240	224	176	119
Hoplostethus atlanticus Faroe Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	155	430	35	1	466	290	89	20	108	61	74	129
Hyperoodon ampullatus Faroe Islands	99 - All areas (World total)	(n)	0	2	6	0	0	0	0	0	7	0	0	0
Illex illecebrosus Faroe Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	0	1	2	16	17	1	0	0	291	208	72	0
Lagenorhynchus acutus Faroe Islands	99 - All areas (World total)	(n)	255	546	774	186	333	310	0	0	1	0	0	0
Lamna nasus Faroe Islands	21 - Atlantic, Northwest	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Lamna nasus Faroe Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	13	8	10	14	5	18	21	14	10	13	14	18
Lampris guttatus Faroe Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Limanda limanda Faroe Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	0	75	34	12	20	54	97	80	69	77	84	42
Lophius piscatorius Faroe Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	2,216	2,314	1,901	2,753	3,723	5,001	5,201	4,010	2,315	2,156	2,486	2,270
Macrozoarces americanus Faroe Islands	21 - Atlantic, Northwest	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mallotus villosus Faroe Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	59,855	28,907	54,059	50,468	33,078	19,752	31,610	19,059	10,211	0	7,353	18,113
Maurolicus muelleri Faroe Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1,482	422	0	0
Melanogrammus aeglefinus Faroe Islands	21 - Atlantic, Northwest	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	13	0
Melanogrammus aeglefinus Faroe Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	16,212	17,081	27,427	30,053	26,887	24,722	21,410	16,833	11,400	8,909	8,894	5,550
Merlangius merlangus Faroe Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	1,593	1,434	1,044	709	1,326	1,817	1,888	1,807	1,154	1,038	937	827
Merluccius merluccius Faroe Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	0	2	6	1	2	7	5	9	67	21	20	7
Micromesistius poutassou Faroe Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	152,687	258,334	204,524	326,593	316,868	267,447	320,592	312,005	229,537	58,324	52,301	16,344
Microstomus kitt Faroe Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	389	729	1,221	1,131	907	661	778	649	380	314	276	179
Molva dypterygia Faroe Islands	21 - Atlantic, Northwest	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Molva dypterygia Faroe Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	1,756	1,751	1,132	2,519	1,542	1,729	2,051	2,080	1,168	1,214	2,238	2,276
Molva molva Faroe Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	2,358	2,859	3,447	3,341	4,513	4,387	5,040	4,359	5,322	5,194	6,643	5,537
Moridae Faroe Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	0	0	0	6	2	1	5	4	10	10	13	7
Myctophidae Faroe Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	34	0	255
Nephrops norvegicus Faroe Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	73	56	41	30	32	42	42	43	54	56	56	51
Odontoceti Faroe Islands	99 - All areas (World total)	(n)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Orcinus orca Faroe Islands	99 - All areas (World total)	(n)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Osteichthyes Faroe Islands	5 - Europe - Inland waters	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Osteichthyes Faroe Islands	21 - Atlantic, Northwest	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Osteichthyes Faroe Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	0	0	0	37	66	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Osteichthyes Faroe Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	3,899	0	0	0	1	26	4	44	63	32	38	70
Pandalus borealis Faroe Islands	21 - Atlantic, Northwest	(t)	7,249	12,028	7,806	12,673	6,002	3,512	2,623	4,099	3,463	4,296	2,998	1,447
Pandalus borealis Faroe Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	5,362	3,902	5,335	1,410	3,312	3,671	1,443	2,962	5,442	3,882	2,826	4,432
Phocoena phocoena Faroe Islands	99 - All areas (World total)	(n)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Phycis blennoides Faroe Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	0	2	6	10	7	7	7	9	4	4	12	0
Pleuronectes platessa Faroe Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	259	327	456	465	468	421	409	362	258	208	253	254
Pleuronectiformes Faroe Islands	21 - Atlantic, Northwest	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	85	4	0
Pleuronectiformes Faroe Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	0	60	138	26	22	44	26	77	246	8	5	0
Pollachius pollachius Faroe Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	0	0	0	0	1	0	3	6	7	11	11	15
Pollachius virens Faroe Islands	21 - Atlantic, Northwest	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	9	0	0	0	0	0	0
Pollachius virens Faroe Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	35,997	50,584	57,050	50,851	52,694	75,962	73,047	67,044	63,948	64,820	48,991	33,200
Psetta maxima Faroe Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	0	0	1	7	1	1	1	0	0	1	1	0
Raja spp Faroe Islands	21 - Atlantic, Northwest	(t)	12	2	0	0	0	0	268	0	49	36	0	0
Raja spp Faroe Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	113	78	26	100	292	298	268	202	203	164	199	199
Reinhardtius hippoglossoides Faroe Islands	21 - Atlantic, Northwest	(t)	1,257	647	385	253	505	304	603	390	549	479	492	323
Reinhardtius hippoglossoides Faroe Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	4,327	3,744	2,631	2,991	2,389	1,486	1,058	1,662	2,819	2,567	1,681	2,124
Salmo salar Faroe Islands	21 - Atlantic, Northwest	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Salmo salar Faroe Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Scomber japonicus Faroe Islands	87 - Pacific, Southeast	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	102	0
Scomber scombrus Faroe Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	21,022	22,790	20,356	12,299	14,203	10,310	12,082	14,124	11,920	14,469	71,539	122,049
Sebastes marinus Faroe Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	13,324	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sebastes mentella Faroe Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	2,877	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sebastes spp Faroe Islands	21 - Atlantic, Northwest	(t)	0	38	69	1,460	436	2,152	229	0	315	1	304	452
Sebastes spp Faroe Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	0	13,879	8,372	7,860	10,573	4,551	10,829	7,163	6,429	6,541	7,118	4,179
Sprattus sprattus Faroe Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	0	44	67	1,675	0	2,125	1,538	1,901	0	0	7,326	237
Squalidae Faroe Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	0	622	322	248	333	251	310	260	143	462	179	104
Squalus acanthias Faroe Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	354	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Strongylocentrotus spp Faroe Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Thunnus albacares Faroe Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Thunnus obesus Faroe Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Thunnus thynnus Faroe Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	118	1	2	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
Todarodes sagittatus Faroe Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Trachipterus arcticus Faroe Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	798	1,940	134	0
Trachurus murphyi Faroe Islands	87 - Pacific, Southeast	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	38,700	22,919	20,213	11,643	0
Trachurus trachurus Faroe Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	2,014	0	458	693	3,867	3,476	1,313	385	800	10	212	349
Trisopterus esmarkii Faroe Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	1,754	122	3,385	2,374	1,159	24	0	0	0	0	3	0
Tursiops truncatus Faroe Islands	99 - All areas (World total)	(n)	0	6	18	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Urophycis tenuis Faroe Islands	21 - Atlantic, Northwest	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Xiphias gladius Faroe Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total:			454,399	515,909	525,991	620,991	599,386	565,260	623,122	620,834	518,267	351,018	393,875	354,956

Note: If marine mammals and crocodiles are included in this list they are not accounted for in the Totals because they are reported in numbers and not in tonnes.

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