Japan vs Myanmar: Wild fish catch from bottom trawling

Japan
418,239 tonnes
in 2018
Myanmar
625,464 tonnes
in 2018
Japan rank
15th
Myanmar rank
12th

Wild fish catch from bottom trawling over time

  • Japan
  • Myanmar
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How they compare

Myanmar currently reports 625,464 tonnes against 418,239 tonnes in Japan, a difference of 207,225 tonnes.

That makes Myanmar's figure about 1.5 times Japan's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 66 shared years of data; in 1953 it was Japan ahead.

Japan ranks 15th and Myanmar ranks 12th 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.