South Korea vs Thailand: Wild fish catch from bottom trawling

South Korea
659,111 tonnes
in 2018
Thailand
764,583 tonnes
in 2018
South Korea rank
11th
Thailand rank
8th

Wild fish catch from bottom trawling over time

  • South Korea
  • Thailand
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How they compare

Thailand currently reports 764,583 tonnes against 659,111 tonnes in South Korea, a difference of 105,472 tonnes.

That makes Thailand's figure about 1.2 times South Korea's.

The two have swapped places 11 times across 58 shared years of data; in 1961 it was South Korea ahead.

South Korea ranks 11th and Thailand ranks 8th 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.