Consume sustainable seafood in Japan to help reduce sea turtle bycatch
By jhjanicki on Monday,May 8th, 2017 in Awareness, Conservation, Fisheries, Ghost nets, No Comments
Hundreds of thousands of sea turtles are accidentally caught in shrimp trawl nets, on longline hooks and in fishing gill nets every year. They become bycatch, non-targeted species, and is usually returned to the sea as discards, typically dead or injured to an extent that death is most likely. A simple action that seafood consumers […]