date:Mar 21, 2014
Nonprofit environmental group Oceana issued a new report this week highlighting nine of what it calls the dirtiest fisheries in the United States, based on reports of bycatch.
The report, Wasted Catch: Unsolved Bycatch Problems in U.S. Fisheries, estimates that approximately 20 percent of the total catch in the United States is thrown away each year, and the nine fisheries in question are responsible for more than 50 percent of the reported bycatch in the country every year.
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