Study highlights apalling waste in fishing industry

By Charlie • September 1, 2007 • 1 comment

We’ve posted before about the short-sighted exploitation of what are coldly called “fish stocks” - eg What’s orange and used to live in the sea? Now comes news of a study that shows that “Nearly two-thirds of all fish caught commercially in Britain are rejected and thrown back into the ocean dead.” With both fish and seabird populations everywhere plummetting isn’t that not only economically insane but morally totally indefensible?

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Charlie

Charlie works for an airline and has birded all over the world for twenty years. He wants to be a writer, and thinks no-one would believe his life could be so charmed if he didn't take photos of as many of the birds he sees as possible. Blogging with 10,000 Birds fits his aims, needs, and insecurities perfectly. Really - do birders get much more fortunate than this?

One Response to “Study highlights apalling waste in fishing industry”

Veery Sep 2nd, 2007 at 5:32 pm

With overfishing such a problem already, it sucks that so much is entirely wasted like that.