Panama vs Somalia: Wild fish catch from bottom trawling

Panama
659.96 tonnes
in 2018
Somalia
786.97 tonnes
in 1991
Panama rank
99th
Somalia rank
98th

Wild fish catch from bottom trawling over time

  • Panama
  • Somalia
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How they compare

Somalia currently reports 786.97 tonnes against 659.96 tonnes in Panama, a difference of 127.01 tonnes.

That makes Somalia's figure about 1.2 times Panama's.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 18 shared years of data; in 1974 it was Somalia ahead.

Panama ranks 99th and Somalia ranks 98th 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.