IMPORTS OF FROZEN FISH BLOCKS BY SPECIES AND COUNTRY, OCTOBER 2008 WITH COMPARISONS ................METRIC TONS................ COUNTRY COD FLATFISH POLLOCK WHITING HADDOCK OCEAN PERCH MINCED OTHER OCT 2008 OCT 2007 JAN 2008 JAN 2007 JAN-DEC 2007 ------------- ------- -------- ------- ------- ------- ----------- ------- ------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ------------ PERU 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 203 58 63 CHILE 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 22 228 228 CHINA 311 179 2,338 52 251 0 70 109 3,310 3,641 35,623 40,121 49,239 JAPAN 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 12 164 104 135 SPAIN 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 CANADA 31 25 0 56 0 0 251 26 389 739 2,754 3,948 4,622 NORWAY 20 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20 13 133 84 134 POLAND 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 24 73 630 944 1,017 RUSSIA 36 0 0 0 20 0 0 0 56 45 689 432 753 _Other 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 82 82 266 1,591 2,323 2,610 DENMARK 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 24 24 ICELAND 10 8 0 0 70 0 46 0 134 139 725 931 1,088 URUGUAY 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20 0 0 MIQUELON 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 46 14 14 THAILAND 79 0 0 0 0 0 0 36 115 34 380 191 230 ARGENTINA 0 0 0 107 0 0 0 34 141 219 3,033 2,160 2,741 FAROE IS. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 47 47 NETHERLANDS 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 SOUTH KOREA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 20 20 SOUTH AFRICA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 14 CHINA - TAIPE 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 11 65 74 OCT 2008 511 212 2,338 215 341 0 367 290 4,274 OCT 2007 823 113 2,220 835 222 48 430 498 5,189 Jan-OCT 2008 5,788 1,999 23,630 3,396 2,390 109 2,759 5,965 46,036 Jan-OCT 2007 6,951 2,227 24,809 6,246 2,328 260 3,565 5,322 51,708 Jan-Dec 2007 8,606 2,644 30,241 7,165 2,828 334 4,330 6,908 63,056