Iceland vs Poland: Wild fish catch from bottom trawling

Iceland
270,807 tonnes
in 2018
Poland
210,541 tonnes
in 2018
Iceland rank
18th
Poland rank
20th

Wild fish catch from bottom trawling over time

  • Iceland
  • Poland
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How they compare

Iceland currently reports 270,807 tonnes against 210,541 tonnes in Poland, a difference of 60,266 tonnes.

That makes Iceland's figure about 1.3 times Poland's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 61 shared years of data; in 1958 it was Iceland ahead.

Iceland ranks 18th and Poland ranks 20th 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.