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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

September 2014

A pile of bycatch species.

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Bycatch: The Cost of Catching What You Don’t Want

September 2014

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