Variable: Fish caught by trawling
QoG Code: (epi_fct)
Description:
Fish caught by trawling measures the percentage of a country's fish caught by bottom or pelagic trawling, where a fishing net is pulled through the water behind a boat. This practice is indiscriminate and wasteful and can severely damage marine ecosystems. The variable is log-transformed according to the formula ln(x+α), where α = 8.40E-08.
Original source: Sea Around Us.
When using this variable, please cite both EPI and the original source.
Type of variable: Continuous
Last updated by source: 2022-06-06
Categories:
Environment
Find this variable in:
Environmental Indicators - 2021
Original Dataset
This variable has information for these countries:
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- Albania
- Angola
- Argentina
- Australia
- Bangladesh
- Belgium
- Brunei
- Bulgaria
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Canada
- Chile
- China
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Croatia
- Denmark
- Equatorial Guinea
- Estonia
- Fiji
- Finland
- France (1963-)
- Gambia
- Georgia
- Germany
- Greece
- Guinea
- Iceland
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Ireland
- Italy
- Japan
- Kiribati
- Korea, North
- Korea, South
- Latvia
- Liberia
- Lithuania
- Malaysia (1966-)
- Maldives
- Marshall Islands
- Mauritania
- Micronesia
- Montenegro
- Morocco
- Myanmar
- Namibia
- Nauru
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Norway
- Palau
- Papua New Guinea
- Peru
- Philippines
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Russia
- Senegal
- Singapore
- Solomon Islands
- South Africa
- Spain
- Sri Lanka
- Sweden
- Taiwan
- Thailand
- Timor-Leste
- Tonga
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Turkey
- Tuvalu
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Vanuatu
- Venezuela
- Vietnam
This variable has information from the year 1995 to the year 2020