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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWHAT 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 bycatchfish 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
How disgusting! Thank you for bringing this to our attention, my dear doxydad. n/t
CaliforniaPeggy
Jun 2014
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littlemissmartypants
(22,417 posts)1. Like we have an unlimited supply. nt
magical thyme
(14,881 posts)2. we've already killed off 90% of our normal eating fish
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.
Tetris_Iguana
(501 posts)3. Well said.
devils chaplain
(602 posts)4. I'll second that -- Well said. n/t
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,296 posts)5. How disgusting! Thank you for bringing this to our attention, my dear doxydad. n/t
msongs
(67,193 posts)6. humans need to stop eating fish. free condoms and birth control for everyone nt