Global capture fishery production of 93.7 million tonnes in 2011 was the secondhighest ever (93.8 million tonnes in 1996). Moreover, excluding anchoveta catches, 2012 showed a new maximum production (86.6 million tonnes). Nevertheless, such figures represent a continuation of the generally stable situation reported previously. Global fishery production in marine waters was 82.6 million tonnes in 2011 and 79.7 million tonnes in 2012 (Figure 3). In these years, 18 countries (11 in Asia) caught more than an average of one million tonnes per year, accounting for more than 76 percent of global marine catches. the Northwest and Western Central Pacific are the areas with highest and still-growing catches. Production in the Southeast Pacific is always strongly influenced by climatic variations. In the Northeast Pacific, the total catch in 2012 was the same as in 2003. the long-standing growth in catch in the Indian Ocean continued in 2012. After three years (2007–09) when piracy negatively affected fishing in the Western Indian Ocean, tuna catches have recovered. the Northern Atlantic areas and the Mediterranean and Black Sea again showed shrinking catches for 2011 and 2012. Catches in the Southwest and Southeast Atlantic have recently been recovering.