date:Mar 21, 2014
sh needlessly die each year as a result of indiscriminate fishing gear, said Amanda Keledjian, report author and marine scientist at Oceana. It's no wonder that bycatch is such a significant problem, with trawls as wide as football fields, longlines extending up to 50 miles with thousands of baited hooks and gillnets up to two miles long. The good news is that there are solutions bycatch is avoidable.
Oceana, in its statement, said that bycatch is higher in open ocean trawling, longline and gi