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About 20 species of zooplankters (copepods, mysids, euphausiids, sergestids, and Scyphomedusae) are commercially fished and utilised as food or feed today. The annual world catch of crustacean zooplankton is probably a little less than 210,000 tons and accounts for 11% of the total crustacean catch in the world. The present status of plankton harvesting in various parts of the world is described. Problems in development of plankton fisheries are discussed.
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Omori, M. Zooplankton fisheries of the world: A review. Mar. Biol. 48, 199–205 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00397145
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