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Thailand vs United States: Wild fish catch from bottom trawling

Thailand
764,583 tonnes
in 2018
United States
791,936 tonnes
in 2018
Thailand rank
8th
United States rank
7th

Wild fish catch from bottom trawling over time

  • Thailand
  • United States
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How they compare

United States currently reports 791,936 tonnes against 764,583 tonnes in Thailand, a difference of 27,353 tonnes.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 58 shared years of data; in 1961 it was United States ahead.

Thailand ranks 8th and United States ranks 7th 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.