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Cameroon vs Gabon: Wild fish catch from bottom trawling

Cameroon
23,496 tonnes
in 2018
Gabon
16,528 tonnes
in 2018
Cameroon rank
59th
Gabon rank
62nd

Wild fish catch from bottom trawling over time

  • Cameroon
  • Gabon
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How they compare

Cameroon currently reports 23,496 tonnes against 16,528 tonnes in Gabon, a difference of 6,968 tonnes.

That makes Cameroon's figure about 1.4 times Gabon's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 68 shared years of data; in 1951 it was Cameroon ahead.

Cameroon ranks 59th and Gabon ranks 62nd 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.