Hong Kong vs Japan: Wild fish catch from bottom trawling

Hong Kong
511,312 tonnes
in 2018
Japan
418,239 tonnes
in 2018
Hong Kong rank
13th
Japan rank
15th

Wild fish catch from bottom trawling over time

  • Hong Kong
  • Japan
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How they compare

Hong Kong currently reports 511,312 tonnes against 418,239 tonnes in Japan, a difference of 93,073 tonnes.

That makes Hong Kong's figure about 1.2 times Japan's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 69 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Japan ahead.

Hong Kong ranks 13th and Japan ranks 15th 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.