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Seafood at the Market

A diverse array of seafood at a seafood market. ...

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Totoaba Swim Bladders

Totoaba is so profitable that it is known as the “cocaine of the sea.” Their...

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Two Fishers Fishing

Two small-scale fishers from Honduras on a fishing trip targeting reef fish on a...

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Hooked

A fisher from the Utila Cays small-scale fishery in Honduras hooks a yellowtail...

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Indonesia Fish Market

Many of the fish species people rely on to make a living live among the mangrove...

Guitarfish, rays, and other bycatch are tossed from a shrimp boat in La Paz, Mexico in 2006.

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Bycatch Raining Down From Above

Guitarfish, rays, and other bycatch are tossed from a shrimp boat in La Paz, Mexico...

An abandoned fishing net carrying 17 dead sea turtles was discovered off the coast of Bahia, Brazil days after a storm.

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Turtles Caught in Abandoned Net

An abandoned fishing net carrying 17 dead sea turtles was discovered off the coast...

Giant drift nets, placed around the world’s oceans to catch commercial fish species, kill non-commercial animals just as efficiently, often taking far more of the latter for every useable species ensnared.

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Sea Lion Drowned in Drift Net

This sea lion has been caught in killed in a giant drift net, or a “curtain of...

Every year in Sardinia, Italy. tuna is fished using a large fixed net anchored on the bottom for the purpose to keep the fish inside to grow calm. But other animals like sunfish (shown here), turtles, dolphins, and others are also captured in the net, and

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Sunfish Entangled in Tuna Net

Every year in Sardinia, Italy. tuna is fished using a large fixed net anchored on...

Lost nets become entangled on a coral reef in the NW Hawaiian Islands, doing damage for decades. Wave action on the net breaks pieces of coral off until the net breaks, when it is free to catch on new reefs and do more damage.

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Lost Nets Hurt Coral Reefs

The impacts of derelict fishing gear on the Northwest Hawaiian Islands coral reef...

About a 300 foot long gill net found abandoned on a shallow reef in the surf zone on Oahu, Hawaii. The net had trapped parrotfish, wrasses, goatfish, surgeonfish, coral crabs, spiny lobsters, slipper lobsters and other fish that had decayed beyond identifi

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Discarded Gillnet Traps Fish

This roughly 300 foot long gill net was found abandoned on a shallow reef in the...

The Gulf of Mexico shrimp trawl fishery scoops up a lot of unwanted fish along with the shrimp. In the 1990s, for every pound of shrimp caught, more than 4 pounds of other fish species were caught as bycatch and discarded dead.

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Shrimp Trawls Catch More Than Shrimp

The Gulf of Mexico shrimp trawl fishery scoops up a lot of unwanted fish along with...

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Bycatch Raining Down From Above

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Sea Lion Drowned in Drift Net

Sunfish Entangled in Tuna Net

Lost Nets Hurt Coral Reefs

Discarded Gillnet Traps Fish

Shrimp Trawls Catch More Than Shrimp

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