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Peru vs Portugal: Wild fish catch from bottom trawling

Peru
99,653 tonnes
in 2018
Portugal
104,344 tonnes
in 2018
Peru rank
35th
Portugal rank
34th

Wild fish catch from bottom trawling over time

  • Peru
  • Portugal
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How they compare

Portugal currently reports 104,344 tonnes against 99,653 tonnes in Peru, a difference of 4,691 tonnes.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 52 shared years of data; in 1967 it was Portugal ahead.

Peru ranks 35th and Portugal ranks 34th 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.