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Notes

(1) Unless otherwise indicated, all the figures cited in this article are those of the FAO.

(2) Cf. the relevant part of Roland Poupon’s study of Southeast Asia (Bangkok, 2016, available on IRASEC’s website (Irasec.com/ouvrage130; in French).

(3) Daniel Pauly, Ray Hilborn and Trevor A. Branch, ‘Fisheries: Does Catch Reflect Abundance?’, in Nature, 494(7437), 21 February 2013, available at: Nature.com/articles/494303a.