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 provides data concerning the amount of

fish

getting caught and imported into Perth, Australia in a certain period of time.

Overall

, the

number

of local

fish

is always more than the imports by a larger margin and the total

number

of

fish

increases until the

year

2008 which is a peak and after

that

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it starts to dwindle slowly. From the table we can gather that in the

year

2004 there is a huge gap between the

amount

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of local catches and imports of fresh

fish

with the former being more than six times the

number

of the latter.

This

is a recurring pattern as we can notice the

number

of local catches rising at a higher rate than the imports and

this

trend persists up until the

year

2009. In the

year

2008, 8136 metrics of fresh

fish

were caught locally which dwarfs the mere 717

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tons of imported

fish

in contrast

. In the

year

2009,

however

, there was a shift and it is the same

year

the local

fish

alongside the total

number

of

fish

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a decrease.

This

course remains true for all the remaining years and the amount of total

fish

starts to decline at a somewhat slow rate. In the

year

2014, the region of Perth got only 5814 tons of

fish

. A

number

that

although

is still more than it was in the

year

2004, has lessened significantly from its peak in 2008.