| Year(s) |
Catch |
Comments |
| 1793 |
5000 |
Pelt Exports |
| 1805 |
81,000 |
Pelt Exports |
| 1819 |
281,000 |
Pelt Exports |
| 1831 |
687,000 |
Pelt Exports |
| 1830 - 1860 |
Average 400,000 |
|
| 1863 - 1894 |
Average 341,000 |
|
| 1895 - 1911 |
Average 249,000 |
|
| 1912 - 1940 |
Average 159,000 |
|
| 1949 - 1961 |
Average 310,000 |
60% foreign fisheries |
| 1961 - 1970 |
Average 287,000 |
60% foreign fisheries |
| 1971 - 1981 |
Average 172,000 |
Introduction of quotas and other regulations |
| 1984 - 1988 |
Average 60,000 |
|
| 1993 |
25,175 |
|
| 1994 |
61,176 |
|
| 1995 |
65,391 |
|
| 1996 |
242,717 |
|
| 1997 |
264,204 |
|
| 1998 |
282,070 |
|
| 1999 |
244,552 |
|
| 2000 |
91,602 |
|
| 2001 |
226,493 |
|
| 2002 |
312,367 |
|
| 2003 |
262,271 |
|
| 2004 |
325,346 |
|
| 2005 |
289,800 |
|
| 2006 |
295,631 |
|
| 2007 |
215,388 |
|
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