Cayman Islands vs El Salvador: Wild fish catch from bottom trawling

Cayman Islands
7,800 tonnes
in 1990
El Salvador
9,774 tonnes
in 2018
Cayman Islands rank
74th
El Salvador rank
73rd

Wild fish catch from bottom trawling over time

  • Cayman Islands
  • El Salvador
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How they compare

El Salvador currently reports 9,774 tonnes against 7,800 tonnes in Cayman Islands, a difference of 1,974 tonnes.

That makes El Salvador's figure about 1.3 times Cayman Islands's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 5 shared years of data; in 1984 it was El Salvador ahead.

Cayman Islands ranks 74th and El Salvador ranks 73rd 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.