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Algeria vs Nigeria: Wild fish catch from bottom trawling

Algeria
49,414 tonnes
in 2018
Nigeria
43,597 tonnes
in 2018
Algeria rank
49th
Nigeria rank
52nd

Wild fish catch from bottom trawling over time

  • Algeria
  • Nigeria
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How they compare

Algeria currently reports 49,414 tonnes against 43,597 tonnes in Nigeria, a difference of 5,818 tonnes.

That makes Algeria's figure about 1.1 times Nigeria's.

The two have swapped places 12 times across 69 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Algeria ahead.

Algeria ranks 49th and Nigeria ranks 52nd 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.