Cameroon vs Malta: Wild fish catch from bottom trawling

Cameroon
23,496 tonnes
in 2018
Malta
36,309 tonnes
in 2018
Cameroon rank
59th
Malta rank
56th

Wild fish catch from bottom trawling over time

  • Cameroon
  • Malta
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How they compare

Malta currently reports 36,309 tonnes against 23,496 tonnes in Cameroon, a difference of 12,813 tonnes.

That makes Malta's figure about 1.5 times Cameroon's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 48 shared years of data; in 1971 it was Cameroon ahead.

Cameroon ranks 59th and Malta ranks 56th 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.