The table below shows local catches and imports of fresh fish into Perth, Australia for the years 2004 - 2014. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

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in Perth, Australia, between locals and imports from 2004 to 2014.

Overall

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, for a decade, the local fishermen provided the

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with more fish than the imported ones.

To begin

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with, looking in detail at the data, in the first year domestic were

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2677.7 metric

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, whilst non-domestic only 464.5. Hereafter, steady increase in local catches throughout the period until reached a peak in 2008 with 8136.2 metric

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, the imports of fresh fish had massive fluctuations between 2004 and 2008,

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the highest number in 2012,

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metric

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dropped to 782.7 in 2014.

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, in the total of metric

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for 10 years, the local ones always had a step ahead of the imports.

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, if we could sum up both of the catches of fresh fish, the highest number was in 2009, 8949 metric

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