Spain vs Thailand: Wild fish catch from bottom trawling

Spain
693,683 tonnes
in 2018
Thailand
764,583 tonnes
in 2018
Spain rank
9th
Thailand rank
8th

Wild fish catch from bottom trawling over time

  • Spain
  • Thailand
01.0M2.0M3.0M195019842018

How they compare

Thailand currently reports 764,583 tonnes against 693,683 tonnes in Spain, a difference of 70,900 tonnes.

That makes Thailand's figure about 1.1 times Spain's.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 58 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Spain ahead.

Spain ranks 9th and Thailand ranks 8th of 111 countries.

Individual pages

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.