Australia vs Sierra Leone: Wild fish catch from bottom trawling

Australia
36,429 tonnes
in 2018
Sierra Leone
36,405 tonnes
in 2018
Australia rank
54th
Sierra Leone rank
55th

Wild fish catch from bottom trawling over time

  • Australia
  • Sierra Leone
050.0k100.0k150.0k200.0k195019842018

How they compare

Australia currently reports 36,429 tonnes against 36,405 tonnes in Sierra Leone, a difference of 23.3 tonnes.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 48 shared years of data; in 1971 it was Australia ahead.

Australia ranks 54th and Sierra Leone ranks 55th 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.