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Falkland Islands vs Greenland: Wild fish catch from bottom trawling

Falkland Islands
81,978 tonnes
in 2018
Greenland
77,468 tonnes
in 2018
Falkland Islands rank
39th
Greenland rank
40th

Wild fish catch from bottom trawling over time

  • Falkland Islands
  • Greenland
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How they compare

Falkland Islands currently reports 81,978 tonnes against 77,468 tonnes in Greenland, a difference of 4,511 tonnes.

That makes Falkland Islands's figure about 1.1 times Greenland's.

The two have swapped places 11 times across 30 shared years of data; in 1989 it was Greenland ahead.

Falkland Islands ranks 39th and Greenland ranks 40th 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.