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MARINE PRODUCTS OF COMMERCE 



the North Pacific Ocean, 46 per cent in the North Atlantic Ocean, 5 per cent in 

 the Indian Ocean, and 1 per cent in the South Pacific and South Atlantic oceans. 

 From a continental point of view Asiatics caught 49 per cent, Europeans 32 per 

 cent. North Americans 16 per cent, and all others only 3 per cent (Fig. 12-1). 



NORTH ATLANTIC-46% \ ^^SOUTH ATLANTIC-1% 

 -INDIAN OCEAN -5% 

 •SOUTH PACIFIC -1% 



BY WATERS 



Fig. 12-1. Distribution of world fishery 

 production of 37 billion pounds before 

 World War II. 



-SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE-2W 



BY HEMISPHERES 



(.Courtesy U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service) 



BY CONTINENTS 



The major known fishery resources of the world are located, according to the 

 Food and Agriculture Organization (Anon., 1945), as follows: 



North America. Atlantic: Waters contiguous to South Greenland, Labrador, 

 Newfoundland, the Maritime Provinces and other parts of eastern Canada, the 

 Atlantic Coast of the United States, and the areas covered by Davis Strait, the 

 Grand Banks, and the Gulf of Mexico. 



Pacific: Waters contiguous to Panama, the areas covered by the Bering Sea and 

 from the Gulf of Alaska to Lower California, and offshore Central America. 



South America. Atlantic: Waters contiguous to Venezuela, the Guianas, Southern 

 Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, the Falkland Islands, and Tierra del Fuego. 



Pacific: Waters contiguous to Peru, Chile, and the Galapagos Islands. 



Asia. Waters contiguous to the Siberian Coast and the East Indies, and the areas 

 covered by the Bering, Okhotsk, Caspian, Japan, and China Seas, and the Bay 

 of Bengal. 



Africa. Waters contiguous to the Atlantic Coast of South Africa and Angola, and 

 the areas covered by the Gulf of Guinea, the waters in the region of the Cape 

 Verde and Canary Islands, and the Mediterranean. 



