Editing Economy of the Falkland Islands (section)

====Finfish====
In the 1970s many fin fish, particularly the rock cod, a high volume low value fish<ref>{{Cite web
|url = http://www.sartma.com/art_7746.html
|title = B17. Southern Ocean
|last = Shotton
|first = Ross
|publisher = FAO
|access-date = 18 June 2010
|archive-date = 16 July 2011
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110716065328/http://www.sartma.com/art_7746.html
|url-status = dead
}}</ref> were exploited to near-extinction.  The levels of rock cod taken in the whole of the South Atlantic dropped by 99.3% in the space of two years between the 1969–70 and 1971–72 seasons.<ref name=figures>399,700&nbsp;tonnes in 1969–70, 101,560&nbsp;tonnes in 1970–71, 2,740&nbsp;tonnes in 1971–72.</ref><ref name=lighthouse>{{Cite web
 |url        = ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/007/y5852e/Y5852E17.pdf
 |title      = Regional Reviews: B17 - Southern Oceans
 |publisher  = FAO Fisheries Technical Paper 457
 |access-date = 18 June 2010
}}{{Dead link|date=November 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> while the patagonian rockcod was fished to near-extinction in the Shag Rock area.<ref>{{Cite web
 |url          = http://www.alternative-solution.org/index.php?id=90&L=1
 |title        = Large-scale commercial marine harvesting
 |publisher    = Lighthouse Foundation - Foundation for the seas and oceans
 |access-date   = 30 June 2010
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20110725000703/http://www.alternative-solution.org/index.php?id=90&L=1
 |archive-date = 25 July 2011
 |url-status     = dead
}}</ref> This resulted in a ban on fishing which was lifted in 2005.  Following the collapse of the Illex industry in 2008/9, the rock cod has become, by weight, the most heavily harvested species in the area.

In 2006, a Spanish vessel on an exploratory trawl found commercial quantities of grenadiers (''Macrourus spp., Coelorhynchus spp.'') to the south and east of the Falkland Islands at depths between {{convert|750|and|830|m}} depths in the eastern part of FICZ. It has been estimated that this species needs a stock biomass of 40000&nbsp;tonnes to produce a sustainable harvest of 3000&nbsp;tonnes per annum and is now reflected as a separate entry in the tables below.<ref>{{Cite web
|url = http://fis.com/falklandfish/FisheriesBulletin11.pdf
|title = Fisheries Department Fisheries Statistics, Volume 11, 2006
|publisher = Falkland Islands Government
|year = 2007
|access-date = 15 June 2010
|archive-date = 11 July 2011
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110711005347/http://fis.com/falklandfish/FisheriesBulletin11.pdf
|url-status = dead
}}</ref>