Sentence examples for discarded at sea from inspiring English sources

More than 90% (in numbers) of the individuals caught were discarded at sea.

There is a risk that the surplus fish landed - instead of being discarded at sea - will simply be sold and that could incentivise overfishing, Oceana says.

Large sharks found hooked but still alive are shot and their bodies discarded at sea.

The marbled electric ray is caught incidentally in bottom trawls, trammel nets, and bottom longlines; it has little economic value and is mostly discarded at sea when captured.

A major threat to sharks comes from the demand for shark fins, which creates an incentive for shark finning – a brutal practice where a shark's fins are cut off and its body discarded at sea, where it can drown, bleed to death or be eaten alive by other fish.

Entangled and hooked turtles are generally drowned, and carcasses are discarded at sea [18].

EU member states have just signed up to an agreement to phase out fish discards at sea, in a move to protect dwindling stocks.

Among other things, the report found that "by stopping overfishing, reducing discards at sea and protecting [the oceans'] most productive areas," the world "can not only recover wild fisheries, we can also protect diverse ocean ecosystems".

All the fulmarine petrels readily feed on fisheries discards at sea, a habit that has been implicated in (but not proved to have caused) the expansion in range of the Northern Fulmar in the Atlantic.

Finally, the majority of F estimates do not include mortality due to by-catch from other fisheries, or discards at sea, which can be substantial (Jennings and Kaiser 1998).

No garbage to be discarded at school.