Book excerpt: This yearbook presents a range of statistical data on international production and foreign trade of fishery commodities for recent years up to 2001. It includes data series on production of processed and preserved fishery products in terms of quantity and on imports and exports of fishery products in terms of quantity and value. It also gives statistics of apparent consumption of fish and fishery products, the value of world catches, the disposition of fishery production and direction of trade for selected countries.