Egypt vs Mauritania: Wild fish catch from bottom trawling

Egypt
64,509 tonnes
in 2018
Mauritania
70,716 tonnes
in 2018
Egypt rank
45th
Mauritania rank
42nd

Wild fish catch from bottom trawling over time

  • Egypt
  • Mauritania
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How they compare

Mauritania currently reports 70,716 tonnes against 64,509 tonnes in Egypt, a difference of 6,207 tonnes.

That makes Mauritania's figure about 1.1 times Egypt's.

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

Egypt ranks 45th and Mauritania ranks 42nd 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.