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Italy vs United Kingdom: Wild fish catch from bottom trawling

Italy
150,061 tonnes
in 2018
United Kingdom
129,985 tonnes
in 2018
Italy rank
27th
United Kingdom rank
29th

Wild fish catch from bottom trawling over time

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How they compare

Italy currently reports 150,061 tonnes against 129,985 tonnes in United Kingdom, a difference of 20,076 tonnes.

That makes Italy's figure about 1.2 times United Kingdom's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 69 shared years of data; in 1950 it was United Kingdom ahead.

Italy ranks 27th and United Kingdom ranks 29th 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.