Almost no discard in fishing trial

摘要

Virtually no fish are thrown away at sea by fishermen taking part in trials in the North Sea and West Channel. The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) has been carrying out the trials in the two areas throughout 2012 and revealed the positive results at the end of November. An MMO report revealed that discards of important stocks such as sole, cod, plaice, megrim and anglerfish have been drastically reduced since the trials began. The MMO is operating the trials on behalf of Defra as part of the UK's initiative to tackle the problem of discarding fish - where fish are thrown away at sea if they are too small or there is no quota left for a particular species. This year's trials have increased both the number of vessels and the number of species involved since beginning in 2011.