“Within commercial fisheries, discarding is the practice of throwing away part of a catch. There are many factors which drive this wasteful and unsustainable practice within the EU.
Fishers, for example, may not be allowed to land a given stock because it would exceed their quota, or a proportion of the catch is below a minimum legal size.
It may also be more profitable to dispose of catch that will not get a good price because they are of poor quality, small, damaged or if the catch is a non-commercial species.
Discarding is, unfortunately, a common practice in global fisheries, estimated to be in the region of 30 million tonnes. This represents around 23 per cent of worldwide catches.”
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Fonte: GreenNews, 14 de junho de 2018
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