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SUBMITTER: Gilman E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7441149 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific reports 20200820 1
Discarding by fisheries is one of the most wasteful human marine activities, yet we have few estimates of its scale. Reliable estimates of global discards are essential for sustainable fisheries management. Using United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization databases on country-specific landings, we estimated the discard rate and magnitude for global marine and estuarine capture fisheries using fishery-specific discard rates derived from direct observations and global gear-specific discard r ...[more]