Egypt vs Faroe Islands: Wild fish catch from bottom trawling

Egypt
64,509 tonnes
in 2018
Faroe Islands
64,470 tonnes
in 2018
Egypt rank
45th
Faroe Islands rank
46th

Wild fish catch from bottom trawling over time

  • Egypt
  • Faroe Islands
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How they compare

Egypt currently reports 64,509 tonnes against 64,470 tonnes in Faroe Islands, a difference of 38.5 tonnes.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 69 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Faroe Islands ahead.

Egypt ranks 45th and Faroe Islands ranks 46th 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.