Australia vs Nigeria: Wild fish catch from bottom trawling

Australia
36,429 tonnes
in 2018
Nigeria
43,597 tonnes
in 2018
Australia rank
54th
Nigeria rank
52nd

Wild fish catch from bottom trawling over time

  • Australia
  • Nigeria
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How they compare

Nigeria currently reports 43,597 tonnes against 36,429 tonnes in Australia, a difference of 7,168 tonnes.

That makes Nigeria's figure about 1.2 times Australia's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 69 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Australia ahead.

Australia ranks 54th 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.