http://www.postchronicle.com/news/business/article_212100236.shtmlUn estudio del gobierno del reino unido publicitado este lunes ha afirmado que el 63% del pescado total capturado por la flota comercial (186 millones de peces) es devuelto al mar muerto haciendo un total de 117.000.000 peces o 24.500.000 kilos no aprovechados anualmente .
Las principales razones son que es una especie no buscada o que siendo buscada es demasiado pequeña y es ilegal venderla.
Los barcos mas destructores son los arrastreros, que provocan el 90% de esa cantidad de peces muertos devueltos al mar.
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Business & Financial News
Published: Aug 28, 2007
Report: Fishermen Discard 63% Of Catch
by Staff
Nearly two-thirds of all fish caught commercially in Britain are rejected and thrown back into the ocean dead, a British government study said Monday.
The study said 63 percent of the 186 million fish caught by commercial fishing vessels -- 117 million fish weighing 24,500 tons -- are thrown back into the English Channel and other British seaways because they are found to be too small or the wrong species.
The study said the most destructive vessels are beam trawlers, which tow a metal bar at the mouth of the net, and heavy otter trawls, which fish on the bottom, The Telegraph reported.
These accounted for 90 percent of all discards, the British newspaper said.
The most frequently discarded species included some of the waters' most-overfished, including cod, European plaice and lesser-spotted dogfish, the report said.
