The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2020

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PART 1 
WORLD REVIEW
3.1 million vessels, 68 percent of the global total 
(
Figure 15
). These figures reflect a decline both 
in absolute numbers as well as in the relative 
proportion of Asia’s fleet in the global total over 
the past decade. Africa’s fleet now accounts for 
20 percent of the global total, while that of the 
Americas has held steady at about 10 percent. 
Europe’s fleet accounts for just over 2 percent 
of the global total, while Oceania’s share is less 
than 1 percent, although fishing remains an 
important activity in the respective regions, and