El Salvador vs Libya: Wild fish catch from bottom trawling

El Salvador
9,774 tonnes
in 2018
Libya
11,748 tonnes
in 2018
El Salvador rank
73rd
Libya rank
70th

Wild fish catch from bottom trawling over time

  • El Salvador
  • Libya
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How they compare

Libya currently reports 11,748 tonnes against 9,774 tonnes in El Salvador, a difference of 1,974 tonnes.

That makes Libya's figure about 1.2 times El Salvador's.

The two have swapped places 7 times across 30 shared years of data; in 1979 it was El Salvador ahead.

El Salvador ranks 73rd and Libya ranks 70th 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.