Greenland vs Mauritania: Wild fish catch from bottom trawling

Greenland
77,468 tonnes
in 2018
Mauritania
70,716 tonnes
in 2018
Greenland rank
40th
Mauritania rank
42nd

Wild fish catch from bottom trawling over time

  • Greenland
  • Mauritania
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How they compare

Greenland currently reports 77,468 tonnes against 70,716 tonnes in Mauritania, a difference of 6,752 tonnes.

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

The two have swapped places 7 times across 51 shared years of data; in 1968 it was Mauritania ahead.

Greenland ranks 40th 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.