Many operators of large industrial-size vessels would prefer to continue to be allowed to discard healthy fish – if they in particular are forced to land all the fish they net, they could end up with catches of lower value species, or lower quality specimens, so being able to select the highest value fish can help them maximise their profits.
Maria Damanaki, the European commissioner for fisheries, said that as part of a proposed new deal with fishermen aimed at ending the wasteful practice of discarding edible fish at sea, lower value fish could be distributed to charities and other public organisations.
Current practices allow fleets to discard damaged fish, or lower value species, for which they receive less money, in order to maximise their profits.
Initially, the economic cost to the fishing industry was relatively high with fishermen experiencing catches comprised of greater proportions of small fish with lower values and lower CPUE [catch per unit effort].
Thus, leading to the current declining trend in fish harvest from high-value demersal fish to lower-value pelagic fish" (Duke).
The substitution of one (lower value) fish species for another (high value) is an example of a biological defect, fraud.
Do you you think that this will push up the value of those lower value units?
Relative to their economic value,fish were categorized according to their commercial value: (1) fish of high commercial value (HC), (2) fish of moderate commercial value (MC), and (3) fish with no commercial value (NC) and is not utilized as food nor is it sold in the fish market.
The lower value of FCR indicates less food needed to produce 1 kg of fish meat.
The lower value of the wages will, therefore, underestimate the value of the amenity.
