Discards in the European fleet are essentially a symptom of a poor management system that has failed to address overcapacity, to impose the use of more selective fishing gears and to set limits based on real catches. WWF wants to see an end to the wasteful practice of discarding and we ask for a new policy that will deliver a systematic reduction of current discard levels, prioritising most problematic fisheries. There are solutions to the problem of discards , many of which have already achieved positive results in Norwegian fisheries . Here WWF outlines some of these solutions.
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