Comparing the Collateral Damage of US Fisheries

Comparing the Collateral Damage of US Fisheries

Source: hakaimagazine

3/26/2021

American fisheries are getting better at only catching the fish they actually intend to catch, rather than pulling in a menagerie of unintended victims. Around the world, the number of extra animals unnecessarily snagged during fishing—often called by-catch or discard—is decreasing. In the United States, by-catch rates have fallen from around 22 percent in 2002 to just over 10 percent in 2015, the most recent year for which figures are available. But these improvements have not happened evenly, and certain fisheries remain worse offenders than others.

In a recent study, researchers with the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) analyzed more than 30,000 instances of by-catch recorded by 95 fisheries between 2010 and 2015.

The scientists assessed how each of the fisheries—which included the relatively modest California halibut trawl fishery, the mid-Atlantic lobster pot fishery, and the Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands pollock trawl fishery, one of the largest fisheries in the world—performed in terms of by-catch.

Pacific halibut

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