Morocco vs Norway: Wild fish catch from bottom trawling

Morocco
1.19 million tonnes
in 2018
Norway
859,280 tonnes
in 2018
Morocco rank
5th
Norway rank
6th

Wild fish catch from bottom trawling over time

  • Morocco
  • Norway
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How they compare

Morocco currently reports 1.19 million tonnes against 859,280 tonnes in Norway, a difference of 331,870 tonnes.

That makes Morocco's figure about 1.4 times Norway's.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 69 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Morocco ahead.

Morocco ranks 5th and Norway ranks 6th 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.