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 compares the local

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that were caught and the fresh

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imports

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in metric

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in Perth, Australia for a decade, from 2004 until 2014.

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, it is shown that both two trends fluctuated in that decade.

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, we can see that the figures for local catches were higher than

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of fresh

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every year. To start with, the highest number of local catches was 8136.2 metric

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in 2008

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the lowest was 2677.7 in 2004.

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, the highest percentage of

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of fresh

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was 1227.3 metric

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in 2012

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the lowest was 231.6 in 2005.

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, we can observe that in total, metric

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of local catches and fresh

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peaked at 8949 metric

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in 2009.

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, one year ago, in 2008, the highest difference between local and

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happened. In that year, local catches reached 8136.2, as I mentioned above, and

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were 717.8 metric

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.

This

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significant difference was about 7500 metric

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.