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FAO Fishing Areas

For statistical purposes, 27 major fishing areas have been internationally established to date.
These comprise:
- 8 major inland fishing areas covering the inland waters of the continents,
- 19 major marine fishing areas covering the waters of the Atlantic, Indian, Pacific and Southern Oceans, with their adjacent seas. 

The major fishing areas, inland and marine, are listed below by two-digit codes and their names. To access maps and description of boundaries of each fishing area click on the relevant item in the list below or in the map showing the 19 major marine fishing areas.

INLAND WATERS
01  Africa - Inland waters
02  America, North - Inland waters
03  America, South - Inland waters
04  Asia - Inland waters
05  Europe - Inland waters
06  Oceania - Inland waters
07  Former USSR area - Inland waters *
08  Antarctica - Inland waters


The fishing area 07 ("Former USSR area - Inland waters") referred to the area that was formerly the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Starting with the data for 1988, information for each new independent Republic is shown separately. The new independent Republics are: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan (statistics assigned to the fishing area "Asia - Inland waters") and Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Republic of Moldova, Russian Federation, Ukraine (statistics assigned to the fishing area "Europe - Inland waters").

MARINE AREAS
18  Arctic Sea
21  Atlantic, Northwest
27  Atlantic, Northeast
31  Atlantic, Western Central
34  Atlantic, Eastern Central 
37  Mediterranean and Black Sea
41  Atlantic, Southwest 
47  Atlantic, Southeast 
48  Atlantic, Antarctic
51  Indian Ocean, Western 
57  Indian Ocean, Eastern 
58  Indian Ocean, Antarctic and Southern
61  Pacific, Northwest 
67  Pacific, Northeast 
71  Pacific, Western Central 
77  Pacific, Eastern Central
81  Pacific, Southwest
87  Pacific, Southeast 
88  Pacific, Antarctic

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