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Because of this, we only show on our charts data up to 2018.\n\nSea Around Us lists some overseas fleets separately from the country they belong to. We add them to that country: the Azores and Madeira to Portugal; Ascension and Tristan da Cunha to Saint Helena; and Bonaire, Saba, and Sint Eustatius to Bonaire Sint Eustatius and Saba.","type":"float","datasetName":"Sea Around Us reconstructed marine fisheries catch","updatePeriodDays":1095,"datasetVersion":"2026-10-24","nonRedistributable":false,"display":{"name":"Bottom trawl","unit":"tonnes","shortUnit":"t","tolerance":3,"numDecimalPlaces":0},"schemaVersion":2,"processingLevel":"minor","presentation":{"titlePublic":"Wild fish catch from bottom trawling","attributionShort":"Sea Around Us","topicTagsLinks":["Fish & Overfishing"]},"descriptionKey":"- Sea Around Us attempts to reconstruct the full catch of each country. 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subsistence, and recreational fishers, unreported catch by industrial fleets, and the fish thrown back into the sea. Sea Around Us attempts to reconstruct the full catch of each country by combining the official figures with estimates of these missing parts, drawn from scientific studies, government reports, and local experts.\n\nThe catch is given in tonnes and broken down by fishing country (the country of the fleet doing the fishing), by fishing sector (industrial, artisanal, subsistence, recreational), by type of fishing gear, by what the catch is used for (eaten directly by people, turned into fishmeal and fish oil, mostly for animal feed, or other uses), by whether it was brought to land or thrown back, and by whether it appears in official statistics.\n\nThe catch of marine mammals, reptiles, corals, sponges, and seaweed is not included, nor is fish farming (aquaculture).","producer":"Sea Around Us","citationFull":"Pauly D., Zeller D., Palomares M.L.D. (Editors), 2020. Sea Around Us Concepts, Design and Data (seaaroundus.org).","urlMain":"https://www.seaaroundus.org/data/#/global","dateAccessed":"2026-10-24","datePublished":"2022-11-17","license":{"url":"https://www.seaaroundus.org/citation-policy/","name":"CC BY-NC 4.0"}}]}