Brazil vs Italy: Wild fish catch from bottom trawling

Brazil
128,156 tonnes
in 2018
Italy
150,061 tonnes
in 2018
Brazil rank
30th
Italy rank
27th

Wild fish catch from bottom trawling over time

  • Brazil
  • Italy
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How they compare

Italy currently reports 150,061 tonnes against 128,156 tonnes in Brazil, a difference of 21,905 tonnes.

That makes Italy's figure about 1.2 times Brazil's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 69 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Italy ahead.

Brazil ranks 30th and Italy ranks 27th 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.