Though the paper Shifting gears: Assessing collateral impacts of fishing methods in U.S. waters is geriatric (2003) in blogosphere terms, I thought it might be worthwhile to post a couple of the paper's visual highlights. Below are the different types of fishing gears that scour U.S. waters (and beyond).
The article rates each gear according to habitat impacts and bycatch (amount of fish caught incidentallly and often wasted by being thrown overboard). Worst offenders: dredges, midwater gillnets, pelagic longlines, and the ever-indiscriminate bottom trawls. Best bets: hook and line, purse seines, and midwater trawls.
Do you know how your favorite seafood is caught?
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You can see from yesterday's post and comments that we are tapping into the science of fish baloney. A commenter took offense to my remarks and misspelling of surimi, a processed food product made from pollock. Pollock, hake, and cod are Gadiforms in the families Gadidae and Moridae.
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