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Posted by }<)))*> StriperChaser on December 17, 2005, 7:25 am By Craig Welch More than a quarter of the fish caught by commercial fishermen nationwide is wasted — caught accidentally and tossed overboard to From the squid and mackerel of the Atlantic seaboard to rockfish off the West Coast, commercial fishermen still discard more than 1.2 "Basically, for every four pounds of fish we land, we're discarding one," said the study's co-author, Andrew Rosenberg, a University of "We should do better."
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Report on commercial fishing: 25% of catch wasted
Seattle Times staff reporter
die, according to a new review of federal records by ocean scientists.
billion pounds of fish every year, mostly because they catch the wrong kind or surpass their quotas, according to the study released by
the environmental group Oceana.
New Hampshire professor and member of the Bush administration's Commission on Ocean Policy.
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