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FAO Capture Production in Peru (t) n = 77
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Scientific name	Fishing Area	Unit	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
Anchoa nasus Peru	87 - Pacific, Southeast	(t)	0	0	0	63,420	39,844	189,389	59,639	24,703	706,167	11,242
Arapaima gigas Peru	3 - America, South - Inland waters	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	420	457	465	210	338
Argopecten purpuratus Peru	87 - Pacific, Southeast	(t)	900	1,625	5,445	2,732	837	3,113	2,086	4,009	24,546	30,141
Astronotus spp Peru	3 - America, South - Inland waters	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	320	308	177	141	251
Atherinidae Peru	87 - Pacific, Southeast	(t)	10,258	1,348	2,033	1,395	2,207	2,357	3,802	5,184	45	6,692
Aulacomya ater Peru	87 - Pacific, Southeast	(t)	16,460	3,869	7,791	5,976	7,203	11,204	6,023	9,669	15,106	14,612
Balaenoptera acutorostrata Peru	99 - All areas (World total)	(t)	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
Balaenoptera borealis Peru	99 - All areas (World total)	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Balaenoptera edeni Peru	99 - All areas (World total)	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Balaenoptera physalus Peru	99 - All areas (World total)	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bivalvia Peru	87 - Pacific, Southeast	(t)	5,142	919	1,862	668	643	569	411	236	152	338
Brachyura Peru	87 - Pacific, Southeast	(t)	3,971	333	1,265	1,027	1,383	2,553	1,605	303	752	11,397
Branchiostegidae Peru	87 - Pacific, Southeast	(t)	326	79	433	736	738	1,544	892	292	119	146
Caranx spp Peru	87 - Pacific, Southeast	(t)	0	0	0	0	18	0	129	16	69	607
Cheilodactylus variegatus Peru	87 - Pacific, Southeast	(t)	270	103	141	111	95	93	283	411	90	236
Cilus gilberti Peru	87 - Pacific, Southeast	(t)	6,715	1,364	4,109	4,098	4,275	4,353	7,920	2,215	5,027	5,695
Colossoma macropomum Peru	3 - America, South - Inland waters	(t)	0	6	0	0	0	0	693	762	254	1,016
Concholepas concholepas Peru	87 - Pacific, Southeast	(t)	7,788	6,018	5,632	2,919	2,557	1,361	2,728	4,366	830	2,289
Coryphaena hippurus Peru	87 - Pacific, Southeast	(t)	355	341	3,992	3,084	3,325	6,598	1,558	4,648	21,104	2,084
Crustacea Peru	87 - Pacific, Southeast	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	23	2,359
Cynoscion analis Peru	87 - Pacific, Southeast	(t)	5,078	1,861	2,850	9,676	5,248	8,902	7,475	5,501	10,795	8,558
Delphinidae Peru	99 - All areas (World total)	(n)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Delphinus capensis Peru	99 - All areas (World total)	(n)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	48
Delphinus delphis Peru	99 - All areas (World total)	(n)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dosidicus gigas Peru	87 - Pacific, Southeast	(t)	7,441	20,657	12,695	7,769	42,838	25,676	8,138	16,061	547	54,652
Echinodermata Peru	87 - Pacific, Southeast	(t)	39	19	63	13	15	131	461	424	90	1,204
Elasmobranchii Peru	87 - Pacific, Southeast	(t)	768	525	2,087	1,212	548	694	1,506	1,915	4,335	2,951
Engraulis ringens Peru	87 - Pacific, Southeast	(t)	2,926,410	3,080,990	4,869,970	7,009,530	9,800,220	6,558,110	7,463,150	5,927,600	1,206,320	6,740,220
Epinephelus spp Peru	87 - Pacific, Southeast	(t)	182	45	0	16	110	191	241	60	101	151
Ethmidium maculatum Peru	87 - Pacific, Southeast	(t)	6,454	3,013	6,018	5,860	4,348	3,140	5,769	7,135	39,311	25,848
Exocoetidae Peru	87 - Pacific, Southeast	(t)	382	85	13,594	9,210	926	35,619	639	1,056	4,506	298,373
Gastropoda Peru	87 - Pacific, Southeast	(t)	4,658	2,219	3,651	2,871	2,504	3,686	2,215	7,098	3,110	4,525
Genypterus spp Peru	87 - Pacific, Southeast	(t)	1,652	506	539	640	639	1,631	1,121	439	425	196
Globicephala macrorhynchus Peru	99 - All areas (World total)	(n)	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Haemulidae (=Pomadasyidae) Peru	87 - Pacific, Southeast	(t)	734	188	195	416	185	890	194	379	266	318
Isacia conceptionis Peru	87 - Pacific, Southeast	(t)	1,359	253	1,985	987	505	1,342	1,955	1,892	2,079	2,791
Katsuwonus pelamis Peru	87 - Pacific, Southeast	(t)	99	54	481	500	109	151	85	823	9,373	802
Lagenorhynchus obscurus Peru	99 - All areas (World total)	(n)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	50
Loligo gahi Peru	87 - Pacific, Southeast	(t)	6,448	780	2,621	1,316	1,215	7,766	10,250	3,806	287	1,353
Lutjanus spp Peru	87 - Pacific, Southeast	(t)	158	56	119	87	23	300	117	75	208	573
Megaptera novaeangliae Peru	99 - All areas (World total)	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Merluccius gayi Peru	87 - Pacific, Southeast	(t)	127,291	72,971	30,410	88,700	135,705	181,182	234,915	177,953	82,365	37,121
Mesodesma donacium Peru	87 - Pacific, Southeast	(t)	1,748	303	1,483	1,513	1,070	1,200	1,060	1,061	578	0
Micropogonias spp Peru	87 - Pacific, Southeast	(t)	1,529	359	217	1,369	602	704	733	606	1,068	1,268
Mollusca Peru	87 - Pacific, Southeast	(t)	1,010	755	3,066	540	556	468	537	2,538	1,528	1,317
Mugilidae Peru	87 - Pacific, Southeast	(t)	21,110	5,868	23,333	14,711	16,964	16,601	13,916	13,264	29,075	20,843
Mustelus spp Peru	87 - Pacific, Southeast	(t)	6,458	2,705	8,578	8,747	3,431	4,125	3,230	3,166	8,038	2,892
Octopodidae Peru	87 - Pacific, Southeast	(t)	1,229	270	350	1,245	602	800	760	1,856	5,153	1,593
Odontoceti Peru	99 - All areas (World total)	(n)	2,087	2,300	3,971	4,154	1,877	252	15	8	0	276
Oncorhynchus mykiss Peru	3 - America, South - Inland waters	(t)	0	619	0	303	0	509	63	869	392	184
Osteichthyes Peru	3 - America, South - Inland waters	(t)	28,321	42,376	32,734	37,987	48,837	44,452	19,524	27,941	28,522	24,018
Osteichthyes Peru	87 - Pacific, Southeast	(t)	69,724	44,948	21,754	20,146	15,686	58,779	45,788	83,048	375,710	162,470
Panulirus gracilis Peru	87 - Pacific, Southeast	(t)	11	3	4	14	52	168	52	12	669	496
Paralabrax humeralis Peru	87 - Pacific, Southeast	(t)	3,543	1,497	4,895	3,647	3,104	5,837	4,954	2,789	2,554	3,278
Paralonchurus peruanus Peru	87 - Pacific, Southeast	(t)	8,704	4,150	6,078	7,550	3,788	5,543	4,263	2,737	4,363	6,063
Penaeus spp Peru	87 - Pacific, Southeast	(t)	6,855	10,151	9,237	9,270	9,610	10,877	9,245	15,648	22,329	7,255
Perciformes Peru	87 - Pacific, Southeast	(t)	392	115	0	464	152	382	858	120	33	1,073
Phocoena spinipinnis Peru	99 - All areas (World total)	(n)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	79
Physeter macrocephalus Peru	99 - All areas (World total)	(n)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Piaractus brachypomus Peru	3 - America, South - Inland waters	(t)	0	62	0	0	0	0	397	0	166	648
Pleuronectiformes Peru	87 - Pacific, Southeast	(t)	2,108	354	2,076	1,195	732	1,559	528	212	230	263
Prochilodus reticulatus Peru	3 - America, South - Inland waters	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	5,088	7,448	2,007	6,117	9,768
Rajiformes Peru	87 - Pacific, Southeast	(t)	4,311	2,081	2,771	3,632	1,658	1,841	1,126	1,177	1,477	2,789
Rhinobatos planiceps Peru	87 - Pacific, Southeast	(t)	539	218	42	89	0	121	460	333	344	95
Rhodophyceae Peru	87 - Pacific, Southeast	(t)	269	127	593	243	170	413	307	155	1,650	1,733
Sarda chiliensis Peru	87 - Pacific, Southeast	(t)	40,142	25,198	35,023	36,976	31,125	28,331	23,059	17,731	5,130	948
Sardinops sagax Peru	87 - Pacific, Southeast	(t)	3,265,300	3,398,400	2,243,220	1,461,760	1,551,830	1,265,660	1,056,410	625,143	908,291	187,924
Scomber japonicus Peru	87 - Pacific, Southeast	(t)	60,776	17,304	17,939	29,504	44,115	44,259	49,221	206,183	401,903	527,729
Scomberomorus sierra Peru	87 - Pacific, Southeast	(t)	731	269	772	924	352	686	439	98	861	2,712
Seriolella spp Peru	87 - Pacific, Southeast	(t)	10,065	3,212	11,211	2,795	8,892	7,698	3,704	388	505	1,589
Squatina californica Peru	87 - Pacific, Southeast	(t)	190	57	93	228	159	289	358	189	101	262
Testudinata Peru	87 - Pacific, Southeast	(t)	101	9	30	28	6	4	0	1	2	1
Thunnus albacares Peru	87 - Pacific, Southeast	(t)	613	135	582	3,573	269	914	953	908	12,747	2,784
Trachinotus spp Peru	87 - Pacific, Southeast	(t)	921	122	41	895	580	566	460	268	779	2,801
Trachurus murphyi Peru	87 - Pacific, Southeast	(t)	191,139	136,337	96,660	130,681	196,771	376,600	438,736	649,751	386,946	184,679
Tursiops truncatus Peru	99 - All areas (World total)	(n)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	32
Xiphias gladius Peru	87 - Pacific, Southeast	(t)	2	3	21	19	5	0	1	0	57	42
Total:			6,868,809	6,898,098	7,502,161	9,004,746	11,999,205	8,937,342	9,515,048	7,869,716	4,344,419	8,426,862

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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