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

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Country	Fishing Area	Unit	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
Mytilus edulis Canada	21 - Atlantic, Northwest	(t)	2,917	3,646	4,359	4,938	6,118	4,505	247	195	178	334
Mytilus edulis Channel Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mytilus edulis Denmark	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	93,348	125,762	136,271	136,677	129,317	107,377	86,002	90,765	108,329	96,215
Mytilus edulis France	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	8,761	5,208	1,272	2,050	3,908	8,910	197	6,972	1,355	9,564
Mytilus edulis Iceland	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mytilus edulis Ireland	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	0	0	0	4,095	3,033	4,556	1,372	1,963	500	0
Mytilus edulis Norway	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	8	4	0	0	1
Mytilus edulis Portugal	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	12	17	45	59	37	45	35	46	24	87
Mytilus edulis Spain	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	1	1,328	0	38	0	0	18	176	84	27
Mytilus edulis St. Pierre and Miquelon	21 - Atlantic, Northwest	(t)	17	11	5	9	7	8	4	2	4	0
Mytilus edulis Sweden	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	17	32	19	30	51	52	0	3	36	0
Mytilus edulis United Kingdom	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	6,740	9,390	7,040	7,751	10,348	9,534	12,337	18,994	11,434	7,972
Mytilus edulis United States of America	21 - Atlantic, Northwest	(t)	16,413	16,859	21,362	14,931	10,891	11,210	9,434	8,063	4,774	4,086
Total:			128,226	162,253	170,375	170,580	163,710	146,205	109,650	127,179	126,718	118,286

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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