date:Mar 21, 2014
marine mammals and 350 sea turtles were captured or killed in one year
Atlantic Highly Migratory Species Longline Fishery (23 percent discarded) More than 75 percent of the wasted fish in this fishery are valuable tuna, swordfish and other billfish targeted by the fishery
New England and Mid-Atlantic Gillnet Fishery (16 percent discarded) More than 2,000 dolphins, porpoises and seals were captured in one year
Hundreds of thousands of dolphins, whales, sharks, sea birds, sea turtles and fi