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doxydad

(1,363 posts)
Sun Jun 29, 2014, 08:38 AM Jun 2014

WHAT A WASTE!: The U.S. Throws Out $1 Billion Worth of Unwanted Fish Every Year

Fisheries across the country chuck millions of dollars worth of scallops, halibut, red snapper, and other fish annually.

Not all of the marine creatures that fishermen trap in their nets end up on your plate. American fisheries discard about 20 billion pounds of the fish they catch every year.

That's roughly 20 percent of their total haul. It's also worth at least $1 billion, according to a report released Thursday by Oceana, an ocean-conservation advocacy group. Discarded marine bounty is known as bycatch—fish or other marine species, such as turtles and crabs, that are unintentionally caught in fishermen's nets meant for certain other kinds and sizes of fish. Bycatch is either brought to port and thrown out there, or tossed overboard while the fishing vessel is still at sea.

The report estimated the value of unwanted fish if they had been sold rather than tossed using data from the National Marine Fisheries Service's National Bycatch Report and fishing-vessel information from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

http://www.nationaljournal.com/domesticpolicy/the-u-s-throws-out-1-billion-worth-of-unwanted-fish-every-year-20140627

Reminds me of the old tune "I lobster and never flounder".
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WHAT A WASTE!: The U.S. Throws Out $1 Billion Worth of Unwanted Fish Every Year (Original Post) doxydad Jun 2014 OP
Like we have an unlimited supply. nt littlemissmartypants Jun 2014 #1
we've already killed off 90% of our normal eating fish magical thyme Jun 2014 #2
Well said. Tetris_Iguana Jun 2014 #3
I'll second that -- Well said. n/t devils chaplain Jun 2014 #4
How disgusting! Thank you for bringing this to our attention, my dear doxydad. n/t CaliforniaPeggy Jun 2014 #5
humans need to stop eating fish. free condoms and birth control for everyone nt msongs Jun 2014 #6
 

magical thyme

(14,881 posts)
2. we've already killed off 90% of our normal eating fish
Sun Jun 29, 2014, 09:21 AM
Jun 2014

the waste of life -- not to mention the damage to the ecosystem -- is sickening.

Well, soon enough we'll have killed off everything in the sea.

The "billion dollars" is irrelevent. Money isn't real; it's just an abstract bartering tool. The life we are destroying...that is what is real. That is what matters.

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