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The fisheries catch in the Red Sea Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of Sudan are presented for the years 1950–2010, by major fisheries and taxa. Sudanese fisheries went through major shifts. The catches were relatively low about 2,000 t · year−1 in the 1950s, remained low, then took off at the end of 1970s, mainly due to development projects funded by foreign organizations, which led to a massive increase in artisanal fishing effort, and ultimately, to catches of more than 5,000 t · year−1 in the 2000s. The fisheries also shifted from being dominated by a shellfish fishery in the early years to one dominated by finfish fishery in the later years. The contribution of the industrial fishery is generally low. The reconstructed catch was at first higher than the catch reported by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on behalf of Sudan in the early years. However, in later years, the opposite occurred, i.e., the catch by FAO was higher than the reconstructed catch. This was deemed to be due to over-reporting by Sudan.
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We would like to thank the personnel of the Fisheries Administration and Fisheries Research Centre in Port Sudan . We would like also to extend our thanks to the personnel of the Ministry of Animal Resources and Fisheries Research Centre in Khartoum . Our special thanks goes to Kalid and Mohammed from the Fisheries Administration, Port Sudan for their help in compiling the catch data from scattered records and their assistance during interviews with fishers; their friendliness to the first author during his field work in Sudan was remarkable. We are grateful to Ahmed Khalil for reviewing the chapter. This research was supported by the Sea Around Us , a scientific collaboration between the University of British Columbia and the Pew Charitable Trusts.
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Tesfamichael, D., Elawad, A.N. (2016). Sudan. In: Tesfamichael, D., Pauly, D. (eds) The Red Sea Ecosystem and Fisheries. Coral Reefs of the World, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7435-2_3
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