date:May 17, 2018
hing method because the unwanted catch is dumped back into the ocean.
Industrial fisheries do not bring everything they catch to port, said Tim Cashion, lead author of the study and a PhD student at IOF.
During the period we studied, they threw out more than 750 million tonnes of fish and 60 per cent of that waste was due to bottom trawlers alone, Cashion pointed out.
Cashion and his colleagues identified the fishing tools used by industrial and small-scale fisheries in each maritime co