Greenpeace
Bycatch
100 millions sharks, 300,000 whales and dolphins, and 100,000 albatrosses – all caught and killed every year in nets or on fishing lines. It’s called bycatch and it is killing ocean life.
Millions of healthy mammals, birds, fish and other ocean life are scooped up in nets or hooked on lines stretching many kilometres across the ocean every year. All too often most of these are not wanted by the fishermen – who are usually only interested in one or two types of fish – so they are thrown back overboard, dead or dying.
All PLANET EARTH groups supports Greenpeace. We are part of the Greenpeace family and believe in its core values.
“We ‘bear witness’ to environmental destruction in a peaceful, non-violent manner. We use non-violent confrontation to raise the level and quality of public debate. In exposing threats to the environment and finding solutions we have no permanent allies or adversaries. We ensure our financial independence from political or commercial interests.”
Annie Leonard, Greenpeace USA Executive Director
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