Denmark vs Iceland: Wild fish catch from bottom trawling

Denmark
206,495 tonnes
in 2018
Iceland
270,807 tonnes
in 2018
Denmark rank
21st
Iceland rank
18th

Wild fish catch from bottom trawling over time

  • Denmark
  • Iceland
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How they compare

Iceland currently reports 270,807 tonnes against 206,495 tonnes in Denmark, a difference of 64,312 tonnes.

That makes Iceland's figure about 1.3 times Denmark's.

The two have swapped places 12 times across 69 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Iceland ahead.

Denmark ranks 21st and Iceland ranks 18th 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.