Falkland Islands vs Mauritania: Wild fish catch from bottom trawling

Falkland Islands
81,978 tonnes
in 2018
Mauritania
70,716 tonnes
in 2018
Falkland Islands rank
39th
Mauritania rank
42nd

Wild fish catch from bottom trawling over time

  • Falkland Islands
  • Mauritania
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How they compare

Falkland Islands currently reports 81,978 tonnes against 70,716 tonnes in Mauritania, a difference of 11,263 tonnes.

That makes Falkland Islands's figure about 1.2 times Mauritania's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 30 shared years of data; in 1989 it was Mauritania ahead.

Falkland Islands ranks 39th 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.