Greenland vs Guinea: Wild fish catch from bottom trawling

Greenland
77,468 tonnes
in 2018
Guinea
85,438 tonnes
in 2018
Greenland rank
40th
Guinea rank
38th

Wild fish catch from bottom trawling over time

  • Greenland
  • Guinea
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How they compare

Guinea currently reports 85,438 tonnes against 77,468 tonnes in Greenland, a difference of 7,970 tonnes.

That makes Guinea's figure about 1.1 times Greenland's.

The two have swapped places 12 times across 51 shared years of data; in 1968 it was Guinea ahead.

Greenland ranks 40th and Guinea ranks 38th 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.