Factoid/2018/04/09
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Changes in commercial fishing could protect threatened species and increase profits
- "Better fisheries management could reverse spiraling population declines in roughly half of threatened ocean species caught unintentionally, according to a new study co-led by University of Oregon economist Grant McDermott. Reducing commercial fishing pressure, which involves large-scale harvesting of fish with methods that also capture untargeted species, known as bycatch, could be done with less than a 5 percent loss in profits, McDermott and nine co-authors reported in a paper in the March 16 issue of the journal Science. Eventually, reforms could raise overall yields by 15 percent and profits by as much as 80 percent, the team concluded." - Excerpt from University of Oregon.
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