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 Stories About: oceans AND fishing AND wildlife AND waste
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Sea you later
Bycatch is the ugliest thing you never see in the fish market |
Erik Hoffner |
05 Dec 2007 |
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| Unwanted fish tossed back into the ocean. Photo: Brian Skerry. Commercial fishing creates a mind-boggling amount of waste, at least 7.3 million tons (PDF) annually of discarded fish ('bycatch') which are either unwanted, illegal to keep, or mangled in the gear. And this number from 2004 is a conservative estimate, not fully accounting for several major fishing countries. Marine photographer Brian Skerry has some very intense imagery that illustrates this ... |
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| Topics: oceans, fishing, wildlife, waste (all these topics) |
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