September 07, 2023
About 35 percent of all fish caught are not eaten. This includes small fish netted accidently while trying to catch more profitable species, as well as fish caught in developing countries that lack the refrigeration to keep the fish from spoiling.
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Talking Ocean Trash: Ghost Gear Keeps on Fishing
An earlier version of this article was published on the Britannica blog Advocacy for Animals. In July 2015 a piece of debris from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was discovered on Réunion, an island in the western Indian Ocean. Since then, more than 20 pieces of possible debris have been
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