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Demersal or Bottom Trawl

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Two fishers in a canoe fishing
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Two Fishers Fishing

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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

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An albatross caught on a fishing line.
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Accidental Catch

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Tuna in a warehouse waiting to be sold at market.
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Tuna at Tsukiji Fish Market

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A red snapper hunts for prey on Kingman’s Reef, a healthy reef in the Line Islands.
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Kingman’s Reef, Line Islands

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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

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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

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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

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a woman's hands close a tin of sardines near a pile of empty cans
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Nimble Fingers: the Women Behind Maine’s Canneries

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Freshly cut dorsal fin from a scalloped hammerhead shark held by fisherman with knife.
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Sharks Threatened by Finning

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David Barouh displays fresh fish for sale at Seattle’s Pike Place Market
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Sustainable Seafood Glossary of Terms

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