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.

The table gives a detailed breakdown in metric

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of how much

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was caught locally and how much was imported over a ten-year period in Perth, Australia. There was a considerably larger volume of locally caught

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than imported

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over the entire period.

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volume of locally caught

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increased dramatically in the first four years before peaking in 2008 at 8136.2 metric

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and

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decreasing every year after that,

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it did recover slightly in the final year to 5031.9

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. With regards to levels of imported

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, there was much more fluctuation than with locally caught, ranging from 231.6

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in 2005 to 1227.3

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in 2012.

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, the

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trend shows an increase over the period with considerably more

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being supplied internationally.

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, we can see that Perth was not very reliant on imported

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and was able to provide a large amount domestically. When looking at total volumes of

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, we can see that amounts increased until 2009 and

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dropped off.

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, Perth seems to be more reliant on

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imports than in the past.