Namibia vs New Zealand: Wild fish catch from bottom trawling

Namibia
185,451 tonnes
in 2018
New Zealand
211,548 tonnes
in 2018
Namibia rank
22nd
New Zealand rank
19th

Wild fish catch from bottom trawling over time

  • Namibia
  • New Zealand
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How they compare

New Zealand currently reports 211,548 tonnes against 185,451 tonnes in Namibia, a difference of 26,097 tonnes.

That makes New Zealand's figure about 1.1 times Namibia's.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 54 shared years of data; in 1965 it was New Zealand ahead.

Namibia ranks 22nd and New Zealand ranks 19th 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.