Showing posts with label "Sea Around Us"; University of British Columbia & University of Western Australia; Fish Catch Dumping. Show all posts
Showing posts with label "Sea Around Us"; University of British Columbia & University of Western Australia; Fish Catch Dumping. Show all posts

Monday, June 26, 2017

10% Of Fish Caught In Oceans Get Dumped — Study

The report welcomed the decline in discards from a peak of about 19 million tonnes in 1989, roughly 15% of a total catch of 130 million tonnes.
Fishing fleets dump about 10% of the fish they catch back into the ocean in an "enormous waste" of low-value fish despite some progress in limiting discards in recent years, scientists said on Monday.