FAO Capture Production of Mytilus edulis (t)     n = 13 (See disclaimer below)

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Country	Fishing Area	Unit	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
Mytilus edulis Canada	21 - Atlantic, Northwest	(t)	448	348	344	205	213	218	151	318	127	54	50	26
Mytilus edulis Channel Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mytilus edulis Denmark	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	110,618	122,487	110,873	92,523	99,500	69,155	54,808	57,335	35,082	37,447	27,872	34,443
Mytilus edulis France	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	8,660	7,497	4,299	1,396	1,443	5,071	6,025	3,238	3,137	2,402	1,083	4,004
Mytilus edulis Iceland	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	79	64
Mytilus edulis Ireland	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	0	0	0	813	0	5,092	733	733	740	0	765	0
Mytilus edulis Norway	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mytilus edulis Portugal	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	48	74	165	1,422	104	9	12	21	53	37	32	132
Mytilus edulis Spain	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	0	33	66	12	19	27	7	38	8	124	58	99
Mytilus edulis St. Pierre and Miquelon	21 - Atlantic, Northwest	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mytilus edulis Sweden	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	70	51	86	70	101	112	107	51	13	11	52	85
Mytilus edulis United Kingdom	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	7,468	14,905	16,738	3,103	12,102	11,158	10,376	4,649	8,602	3,451	5,193	9,239
Mytilus edulis United States of America	21 - Atlantic, Northwest	(t)	6,009	6,524	9,862	9,091	10,359	9,618	8,396	7,328	8,551	12,807	14,981	10,892
Total:			133,331	151,919	142,433	108,635	123,841	100,460	80,615	73,711	56,316	56,333	50,165	58,984

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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