Mexico vs Spain: Seafood production: wild fish catch vs. aquaculture

Mexico
273,739 metric tons
in 2024
Spain
246,201 metric tons
in 2024
Mexico rank
23rd
Spain rank
25th

Seafood production: wild fish catch vs. aquaculture over time

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How they compare

Mexico currently reports 273,739 metric tons against 246,201 metric tons in Spain, a difference of 27,538 metric tons.

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

The two have swapped places 3 times across 65 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Spain ahead.

Mexico ranks 23rd and Spain ranks 25th of 215 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Seafood production: wild fish catch vs. aquaculture
Unit
metric tons
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), via World Bank (2026) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
215 places, 12,849 data points, 1960–2024
Last refreshed

Aquaculture is the farming of aquatic organisms including fish, molluscs, crustaceans and aquatic plants. Capture fishery production is the volume of wild fish catches landed for all commercial, industrial, recreational and subsistence purposes.