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Argentina vs Hong Kong: Wild fish catch from bottom trawling

Argentina
430,062 tonnes
in 2018
Hong Kong
511,312 tonnes
in 2018
Argentina rank
14th
Hong Kong rank
13th

Wild fish catch from bottom trawling over time

  • Argentina
  • Hong Kong
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How they compare

Hong Kong currently reports 511,312 tonnes against 430,062 tonnes in Argentina, a difference of 81,250 tonnes.

That makes Hong Kong's figure about 1.2 times Argentina's.

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

Argentina ranks 14th and Hong Kong ranks 13th 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.