FAO Capture Production of Physeter macrocephalus (t)     n = 31 (See disclaimer below)

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Country	Fishing Area	Unit	1970	1971	1972	1973	1974	1975	1976	1977	1978	1979
Physeter macrocephalus Argentina	98 -	(n)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Physeter macrocephalus Australia	99 - All areas (World total)	(n)	799	860	953	971	1,080	1,172	995	624	679	0
Physeter macrocephalus Bahamas	99 - All areas (World total)	(n)	173	224	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Physeter macrocephalus Belgium	99 - All areas (World total)	(n)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Physeter macrocephalus Brazil	99 - All areas (World total)	(n)	76	55	66	75	29	54	9	25	24	27
Physeter macrocephalus Canada	99 - All areas (World total)	(n)	27	37	43	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Physeter macrocephalus Chile	99 - All areas (World total)	(n)	270	246	337	232	130	48	85	43	100	34
Physeter macrocephalus Denmark	99 - All areas (World total)	(n)	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Physeter macrocephalus Ecuador	99 - All areas (World total)	(n)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Physeter macrocephalus Falkland Is.(Malvinas)	98 -	(n)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Physeter macrocephalus France	99 - All areas (World total)	(n)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Physeter macrocephalus Greenland	99 - All areas (World total)	(n)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Physeter macrocephalus Iceland	99 - All areas (World total)	(n)	61	106	76	47	71	37	111	110	141	96
Physeter macrocephalus Italy	99 - All areas (World total)	(n)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Physeter macrocephalus Japan	98 -	(n)	18	192	126	132	45	307	146	129	36	18
Physeter macrocephalus Japan	99 - All areas (World total)	(n)	6,530	6,273	5,447	4,950	4,534	4,877	3,986	3,183	2,525	1,502
Physeter macrocephalus Netherlands	98 -	(n)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Physeter macrocephalus Norway	98 -	(n)	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Physeter macrocephalus Norway	99 - All areas (World total)	(n)	133	159	30	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Physeter macrocephalus Oman	99 - All areas (World total)	(n)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Physeter macrocephalus Panama	98 -	(n)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Physeter macrocephalus Peru	99 - All areas (World total)	(n)	1,436	1,321	1,554	1,497	1,286	793	1,500	799	770	742
Physeter macrocephalus Portugal	99 - All areas (World total)	(n)	249	353	390	388	234	238	57	184	205	179
Physeter macrocephalus South Africa	98 -	(n)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Physeter macrocephalus Spain	99 - All areas (World total)	(n)	261	273	181	178	167	231	120	78	118	82
Physeter macrocephalus Taiwan Province of China	99 - All areas (World total)	(n)	1,824	2,068	1,640	1,606	1,783	1,682	0	0	0	0
Physeter macrocephalus Un. Sov. Soc. Rep.	98 -	(n)	3,066	2,863	3,240	4,071	4,882	3,855	2,683	1,873	2,124	2,286
Physeter macrocephalus Un. Sov. Soc. Rep.	99 - All areas (World total)	(n)	10,528	7,565	4,815	8,158	6,981	7,751	7,442	5,234	4,281	3,570
Physeter macrocephalus United Kingdom	98 -	(n)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Physeter macrocephalus United States of America	67 - Pacific, Northeast	(n)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Physeter macrocephalus United States of America	99 - All areas (World total)	(n)	64	47	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total:			0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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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