Earth Report - Potted Shrimp

For every kilo of shrimp netted, up to 20 kilos of other sea creatures are needlessly killed. It's called bycatch and it makes shrimp trawling one of the most wasteful methods of fishing harming the marine environment and also damaging commercial fisheries. Earth Report travels to Mexico and the Philippines where the industry is trialling new nets and new practices that aim to drastically reduce the bycatch from shrimp fishing.

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• Earth
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• Mexico
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• environment
• marine
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• bycatch
• shrimp
• TEDS
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• FAO
• trawling
• fishing
• sustainable
• biodiversity

[sundaydiver]

For each kilogram of shrimp trawled in Mexico, between 10-14 kg of bycatch are fished. Yes, a little less than 20kg, but what difference does it make whether a fishing practice wastes 10 times its own weight in resources or 20 times its own weight? Either way it's unacceptable. If you'd like to check facts, google Richard Brusca's book, The Gulf of California, page 87 (available online). Brusca is THE expert on the Gulf of California and extremely knowledgeable about shrimp fisheries there.

[faisonpete]

20 to one. Not true. Yes there is bycatch but if you are going to cite facts then tell the truth. You have an agenda and are not worth litening to. Sad that people who do not know better listen to idiots like this