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Cape Verde vs Mauritania: Wild fish catch from bottom trawling

Cape Verde
68,366 tonnes
in 2018
Mauritania
70,716 tonnes
in 2018
Cape Verde rank
43rd
Mauritania rank
42nd

Wild fish catch from bottom trawling over time

  • Cape Verde
  • Mauritania
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How they compare

Mauritania currently reports 70,716 tonnes against 68,366 tonnes in Cape Verde, a difference of 2,350 tonnes.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 11 shared years of data; in 2000 it was Mauritania ahead.

Cape Verde ranks 43rd and Mauritania ranks 42nd 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
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Bottom trawling is a fishing method in which a large, heavy net is dragged along the seafloor to catch fish and other marine life.