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

fish

that were caught and the fresh

fish

imports

in metric

tons

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

Overall

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

In addition

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

imports

of fresh

fish

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

tons

in 2008

while

the lowest was 2677.7 in 2004.

On the other hand

, the highest percentage of

imports

of fresh

fish

was 1227.3 metric

tons

in 2012

while

the lowest was 231.6 in 2005.

Additionally

, we can observe that in total, metric

tons

of local catches and fresh

fish

imports

peaked at 8949 metric

tons

in 2009.

Finally

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

imports

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

imports

were 717.8 metric

tons

.

This

significant difference was about 7500 metric

tons

.