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Huge Bycatch Waste by U.S. Shrimp Industry
- "Shrimpers, for example, catch 114,000 tons of shrimp a year but discard four times that weight in snappers, mackerel, croaker, crabs and porgies." - excerpt from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer article about the recently published Oceana report on fishing bycatch. See http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/250412_fish01.html
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