Capture fisheries production in Australia

Capture fisheries in Australia landed 227,277 tonnes in 2024.

Measure: Capture fisheries production Unit: Metric tonnes Data: 1960 to 2024 Source: World Bank
Australia, 2024 227,277 Metric tonnes
Change from 2023 −0.3% 2023: 228,057 tonnes
World, 2024 94,403,126 tonnes Official aggregate
Position in 2024 59th of 215 See the full ranking

Capture fisheries production in Australia over time

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Metric tonnes. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.

Capture fisheries production (metric tonnes), 2000 to 2024
Period AustraliaWorld
2024 227,277 tonnes 94,403,126 tonnes
2023 228,057 tonnes 92,981,262 tonnes
2022 223,847 tonnes 93,221,970 tonnes
2021 211,315 tonnes 93,590,253 tonnes
2020 206,415 tonnes 91,609,572 tonnes
2019 223,781 tonnes 94,910,375 tonnes
2018 220,464 tonnes 98,740,431 tonnes
2017 224,800 tonnes 95,664,397 tonnes
2016 206,089 tonnes 92,195,579 tonnes
2015 187,351 tonnes 94,357,557 tonnes
2014 182,085 tonnes 93,466,633 tonnes
2013 191,102 tonnes 93,116,007 tonnes
2012 210,646 tonnes 91,395,933 tonnes
2011 208,526 tonnes 94,143,395 tonnes
2010 210,686 tonnes 89,688,933 tonnes
2009 199,075 tonnes 91,445,934 tonnes
2008 211,491 tonnes 92,325,811 tonnes
2007 211,042 tonnes 93,503,695 tonnes
2006 229,131 tonnes 93,672,351 tonnes
2005 273,833 tonnes 95,594,652 tonnes
2004 255,833 tonnes 95,878,960 tonnes
2003 240,089 tonnes 91,084,188 tonnes
2002 217,973 tonnes 93,786,009 tonnes
2001 217,108 tonnes 93,409,856 tonnes
2000 219,713 tonnes 96,170,993 tonnes

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of −0.3% from 228,057 tonnes in 2023.
  • Since 2014, when it was 182,085 tonnes, the figure has changed by +24.8%.
  • Among the 215 countries with data for 2024, Australia has the 59th highest value.
  • The figure for the world in 2024 was 94,403,126 tonnes.

Source and dates

Original producer
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Distributed by
World Bank, World Development Indicators
Dataset or series code
ER.FSH.CAPT.MT · dataset details · view at source
Observation period
1960 to 2024 for Australia
Provider update
8 October 2026
Retrieved
9 November 2026
Published here
9 November 2026
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (per series metadata)
Attribution
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, original data: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)