Bycatch: There’s More Than Just Your Seafood on the Line Americans love to eat seafood. In fact, seafood consumption in the United States has grown 50 percent in the last 50 years, with shrimp, tuna and salmon topping the list as most popular choices. What many people may not know, however, is that their shrimp cocktail or swordfish steak may come with a side-order of dead sea turtle, dolphin or shark. Bycatch, the catch of non-target fish and ocean wildlife, is a persistent threat to marine ecosystems around the world. According to some estimates, bycatch may amount to 40 percent of the world’s fishing catch, totaling 63 billion pounds a year. Read more ⬇️ inhabitat/bycatch-theres-more-than-just-your-seafood-on-the-line/
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