User talk:PGSable

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I put this on the page where you asked your question, but here's the answer:

I could swear I've seen a ranked list of every country in the world by fishing fleet size, but I'm having trouble finding it. It may depend if you rank them by tonnage or by number of boats, etc. However, I would say almost beyond a doubt that China is #1. According to this list (ftp://ftp.fao.org/fi/stat/summary/a2.pdf), China caught about 4x as much weight in fish and crustaceans as Japanm and very few countries come close to Japan. It looks from different news articles like they must have cut their fleet since then, but that gap is just too huge to have been closed. --Brian Z 02:15, 11 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]