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Bycatch has ‘shocking’ toll on British marine life, first-ever analysis reveals (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The numbers listed here are quite low as a percentage of the 1-3 trillion fish slowly tortured to death every year by the fishing industry on purpose.

Scottish creel rope kills:

6 humpback whales
30 minke whales

UK-only vessels, annual bycatch killed estimates:

120 tonnes of "protected" sharks, skates, and rays
10 000 seabirds
1 000+ endangered Atlantic salmon
1 000 harbour porpoises and common dolphins
500 seals

Globally

400 000 seabird deaths from drowning due to gillnets

Orders of magnitude worse suffering is caused by factory farms where another 1-3 trillion fish are enslaved in continuous torturous conditions their entire lives.