Download or read book Trends in Oceanic Captures and Clustering of Large Marine Ecosystems written by Luca Garibaldi and published by Fao. This book was released on 2003 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Species items reported in the FAO capture production database have been classified as oceanic or living on the continental shelf. Catch trends of oceanic species, further subdivided into epipelagic and deep-water species, have been analysed over 50-year period (1950-99), while statistics for shelf species have been re-assigned to large marine ecosystems (LMEs) for a shorter perio (1990-99) and used to investigate catch patterns among the various LMEs.