The graph below shows the consumption of fish and some different kinds of meat in Europe country between 1979 and 2004.

The graph illustrates the amount of utilisation of fish,

chicken

,

lamb

and beef by the European population between the years 1979 to 2004. The unit represents

grams

.

Overall

, the consumption of

chicken

witnessed an increase.

Whereas

,

lamb

together with

beef accounted for a downward trend.

Although

, the use of fish recorded a decline slightly. Looking at the details, the using of

chicken

and

lamb

equally accounted for 150

grams

initially

but the eating of

chicken

climbed dramatically

while

the

lamb

stepped down slowly and reached 250 or 70

grams

respectively

at the end

.

However

, beef purchased peaked in 1984 and after ,

this

it dropped considerably to almost 120

grams

in 2004.  As can be seen,the sale of fish slightly decreased after 1979 to stand at 60

grams

and have stable at 50

grams

throughout the observed years.