NMFS report details millions of wasted fish

More than half of fishing fleets are not collecting information about bycatch. Photo: NOAA

NMFS has issued a report this week detailing the catch and bycatch of fisheries in the Northeast of the US from July 2010 to June 2011 - during this period approximately 156 million pounds of fish were wasted.

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