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Crassostrea gigas FAO Aquaculture Production of Crassostrea gigas (t)     n = 36 (See disclaimer below)

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Country	Fishing Area	Unit	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
Crassostrea gigas Algeria	37 - Mediterranean and Black Sea	(t) (US$'000)	0 0	0 0	0 0	0 0	0 0	0 0	0 0	0 0
Crassostrea gigas Argentina	41 - Atlantic, Southwest	(t) (US$'000)	10 35	10 45	60 102	50 50	108 84	180 342	110 220	120 240
Crassostrea gigas Australia	57 - Indian Ocean, Eastern	(t) (US$'000)	0 0	0 0	0 0	0 0	0 0	0 0	0 0	0 0
Crassostrea gigas Australia	57 - Indian Ocean, Eastern	(t) (US$'000)	4,693 14,512	4,648 12,861	4,924 14,596	4,215 15,469	3,900 16,661	2,737 15,366	2,584 14,094	2,529 15,842
Crassostrea gigas Canada	67 - Pacific, Northeast	(t) (US$'000)	5,500 3,779	7,400 5,180	7,200 5,966	7,837 6,115	7,562 7,453	8,011 8,468	8,149 10,635	6,800 9,284
Crassostrea gigas Channel Islands	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t) (US$'000)	299 612	405 810	481 939	575 1,269	746 1,649	592 1,078	600 1,092	737 1,341
Crassostrea gigas Chile	87 - Pacific, Southeast	(t) (US$'000)	5,641 5,641	7,089 7,089	3,718 7,808	3,662 9,155	1,795 7,180	2,226 6,433	1,361 4,859	721 2,004
Crassostrea gigas China	61 - Pacific, Northwest	(t) (US$'000)	2,904,508 2,323,606	3,066,431 2,299,823	3,177,530 2,383,148	3,211,346 1,509,333	3,281,883 1,542,452	3,346,963 1,732,027	3,403,446 1,810,032	3,508,934 2,035,182
Crassostrea gigas China, Hong Kong SAR	61 - Pacific, Northwest	(t) (US$'000)	403 383	610 638	1,102 1,269	1,256 1,277	1,097 1,147	694 771	694 772	1,055 1,025
Crassostrea gigas Costa Rica	77 - Pacific, Eastern Central	(t) (US$'000)	0 0	0 0	0 0	0 0	0 0	1 1	1 1	1 1
Crassostrea gigas Falkland Is.(Malvinas)	41 - Atlantic, Southwest	(t) (US$'000)	0 0	0 0	0 0	0 0	1 9	1 8	1 12	1 13
Crassostrea gigas France	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t) (US$'000)	123,500 181,446	99,300 183,528	104,816 217,152	106,005 262,609	107,740 297,377	109,120 307,218	101,896 289,157	102,000 327,143
Crassostrea gigas France	37 - Mediterranean and Black Sea	(t) (US$'000)	10,000 14,692	8,090 14,952	8,470 17,548	8,600 21,305	9,000 24,841	9,000 25,339	8,810 25,001	8,800 27,862
Crassostrea gigas Germany	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t) (US$'000)	85 850	85 850	85 724	85 865	85 951	85 953	86 972	86 1,061
Crassostrea gigas Ireland	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t) (US$'000)	5,031 7,397	4,909 5,479	5,444 11,279	4,830 11,365	5,103 15,164	5,811 15,057	6,511 18,313	7,661 24,151
Crassostrea gigas Japan	61 - Pacific, Northwest	(t) (US$'000)	221,252 331,878	231,495 347,243	221,376 332,064	224,861 337,292	234,151 351,227	218,896 328,344	208,182 312,273	201,200 301,800
Crassostrea gigas Korea, Republic of	61 - Pacific, Northwest	(t) (US$'000)	177,079 74,126	174,117 64,772	182,229 66,186	238,326 82,480	239,270 97,838	251,706 128,269	283,296 137,724	321,276 140,379
Crassostrea gigas Mexico	77 - Pacific, Eastern Central	(t) (US$'000)	503 503	892 1,346	654 1,197	762 1,497	639 1,287	1,417 2,572	1,479 2,662	1,500 2,700
Crassostrea gigas Mexico	31 - Atlantic, Western Central	(t) (US$'000)	0 0	0 0	602 1,102	600 1,179	598 1,204	0 0	0 0	0 0
Crassostrea gigas Morocco	34 - Atlantic, Eastern Central	(t) (US$'000)	183 300	156 335	255 566	222 624	160 494	243 739	240 737	362 1,035
Crassostrea gigas Namibia	47 - Atlantic, Southeast	(t) (US$'000)	30 72	30 72	25 63	25 63	25 63	25 63	25 63	10 35
Crassostrea gigas New Caledonia	71 - Pacific, Western Central	(t) (US$'000)	31 155	50 268	67 377	70 475	69 515	84 746	87 851	80 919
Crassostrea gigas New Zealand	81 - Pacific, Southwest	(t) (US$'000)	3,500 4,402	3,500 5,709	1,594 5,572	1,840 7,839	2,023 9,443	2,800 18,302	2,800 18,186	3,000 12,522
Crassostrea gigas Norway	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t) (US$'000)	0 0	0 0	0 0	0 0	0 0	0 0	0 0	0 0
Crassostrea gigas Peru	87 - Pacific, Southeast	(t) (US$'000)	11 63	8 25	9 27	11 36	6 19	3 11	6 21	0 0
Crassostrea gigas Portugal	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t) (US$'000)	448 1,075	768 1,766	249 379	323 621	325 687	331 701	410 880	407 1,004
Crassostrea gigas Senegal	34 - Atlantic, Eastern Central	(t) (US$'000)	0 0	7 14	6 13	9 27	4 27	5 33	0 0	0 0
Crassostrea gigas Singapore	71 - Pacific, Western Central	(t) (US$'000)	0 0	0 0	0 0	0 0	5 32	0 0	64 32	9 58
Crassostrea gigas South Africa	47 - Atlantic, Southeast	(t) (US$'000)	247 859	188 524	272 623	255 815	220 820	250 946	280 1,058	158 597
Crassostrea gigas Spain	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t) (US$'000)	586 1,699	666 1,865	558 1,562	496 1,389	1,665 4,662	1,577 4,416	950 2,660	1,394 3,903
Crassostrea gigas Spain	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t) (US$'000)	0 0	0 0	83 232	80 224	458 1,282	304 851	302 846	324 907
Crassostrea gigas Taiwan Province of China	61 - Pacific, Northwest	(t) (US$'000)	19,972 81,972	16,837 76,487	19,800 65,215	23,462 68,215	20,750 62,128	28,430 92,750	28,547 93,431	28,199 97,899
Crassostrea gigas Taiwan Province of China	61 - Pacific, Northwest	(t) (US$'000)	0 0	0 0	0 0	0 0	0 0	0 0	0 0	0 0
Crassostrea gigas Tunisia	37 - Mediterranean and Black Sea	(t) (US$'000)	0 0	1 3	8 25	8 28	8 29	10 35	2 7	5 18
Crassostrea gigas United Kingdom	27 - Atlantic, Northeast	(t) (US$'000)	633 2,534	826 3,746	796 3,764	1,012 3,639	1,504 6,888	922 4,223	1,376 6,668	1,329 8,646
Crassostrea gigas United States of America	67 - Pacific, Northeast	(t) (US$'000)	38,418 22,667	54,222 28,738	43,924 35,139	42,756 35,915	44,018 37,415	41,716 103,039	38,780 42,658	35,131 36,536
Total:			3,522,563 0	3,682,740 0	3,786,337 0	3,883,579 0	3,964,918 0	4,034,140 0	4,101,075 0	4,233,829 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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