Albania vs El Salvador: Wild fish catch from bottom trawling

Albania
6,557 tonnes
in 2018
El Salvador
9,774 tonnes
in 2018
Albania rank
75th
El Salvador rank
73rd

Wild fish catch from bottom trawling over time

  • Albania
  • El Salvador
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How they compare

El Salvador currently reports 9,774 tonnes against 6,557 tonnes in Albania, a difference of 3,217 tonnes.

That makes El Salvador's figure about 1.5 times Albania's.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 30 shared years of data; in 1979 it was Albania ahead.

Albania ranks 75th and El Salvador ranks 73rd of 111 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Wild fish catch from bottom trawling
Unit
tonnes
Source
Sea Around Us (2020) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
111 places, 6,156 data points, 1950–2018
Last refreshed

Bottom trawling is a fishing method in which a large, heavy net is dragged along the seafloor to catch fish and other marine life.