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Lead story: Deep-sea fish horror: thousands left to rot in nets
Thousands of tonnes of monkfish and deep-sea sharks are being left for days and sometimes even months in gillnets set in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean, only to be thrown away rotten when fishing vessels return to collect their catch.
Human fishers are leaving thousands of kilometres of gillnets in various areas on the continental shelf for a very long time. Sixty-five per cent of the monkfish caught this way must be thrown away because they are unfit for human consumption. The same is happening to deepwater sharks.
“Our deep-sea communities are outraged and live in fear of this negligent practice,” said Benedict Monkfish, an outspoken critic of intense human fishing efforts. He said deep-sea, slow growing species are "already vulnerable" to these efforts, and “cannot afford” such high levels of mortality.
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