FAO Capture Production of Octopus vulgaris (t)     n = 21 (See disclaimer below)

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Country	Fishing Area	Unit	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
Octopus vulgaris Albania	37 - Mediterranean and Black Sea	(t)	85	24	105	137	135	47	82	82	82	109	47	113
Octopus vulgaris Congo, Republic of	34 - Atlantic, Eastern Central	(t)	0	0	0	28	6	5	38	10	8	25	20	44
Octopus vulgaris Croatia	37 - Mediterranean and Black Sea	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	146	141	149
Octopus vulgaris Dominican Republic	31 - Atlantic, Western Central	(t)	99	57	86	66	45	84	73	7	63	57	24	29
Octopus vulgaris France	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	20	3	38	37	67
Octopus vulgaris France	37 - Mediterranean and Black Sea	(t)	1,643	1,406	2,128	1,284	1,166	1,569	1,576	1,389	1,223	1,153	1,584	1,118
Octopus vulgaris Greece	37 - Mediterranean and Black Sea	(t)	2,193	2,058	2,263	2,697	3,061	2,496	2,212	2,146	1,601	1,580	1,487	1,487
Octopus vulgaris Guinea0Bissau	34 - Atlantic, Eastern Central	(t)	0	3	0	85	50	70	90	110	130	145	145	145
Octopus vulgaris Italy	34 - Atlantic, Eastern Central	(t)	1,373	1,388	784	1,499	1,350	1,534	1,612	1,277	1,305	1,387	727	0
Octopus vulgaris Italy	37 - Mediterranean and Black Sea	(t)	7,800	8,648	7,373	6,615	5,473	3,897	4,117	3,895	3,018	3,454	3,336	4,023
Octopus vulgaris Lebanon	37 - Mediterranean and Black Sea	(t)	25	25	25	25	25	25	24	24	24	24	24	24
Octopus vulgaris Libya	37 - Mediterranean and Black Sea	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	148	247	0	0	0
Octopus vulgaris Mexico	31 - Atlantic, Western Central	(t)	22,463	20,596	16,018	16,103	24,447	6,753	16,372	11,802	8,959	16,636	15,325	16,281
Octopus vulgaris Montenegro	37 - Mediterranean and Black Sea	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	0	20	19	23	15	16	13
Octopus vulgaris Portugal	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t)	624	823	659	1,310	692	3,487	3,953	5,283	9,160	6,720	10,454	7,199
Octopus vulgaris Serbia and Montenegro	37 - Mediterranean and Black Sea	(t)	10	12	11	10	7	9	0	0	0	0	0	0
Octopus vulgaris Slovenia	37 - Mediterranean and Black Sea	(t)	18	53	25	32	24	37	28	34	14	25	20	0
Octopus vulgaris Spain	34 - Atlantic, Eastern Central	(t)	11,626	14,913	8,483	12,640	8,393	9,894	9,948	5,134	5,792	6,752	4,759	5,317
Octopus vulgaris Tunisia	37 - Mediterranean and Black Sea	(t)	2,103	1,752	2,535	2,710	4,638	3,901	2,542	2,297	1,280	1,819	3,064	2,987
Octopus vulgaris Turkey	37 - Mediterranean and Black Sea	(t)	680	1,400	1,502	750	1,185	876	1,114	664	681	649	509	322
Octopus vulgaris Yugoslavia SFR	37 - Mediterranean and Black Sea	(t)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total:			50,742	53,158	41,997	45,991	50,697	34,684	43,801	34,341	33,613	40,734	41,719	39,318

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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