35 per cent of fish caught for food is never eaten

Newsweek quoted Daniel Pauly, with the Sea Around Us research initiative at UBC, in an article about a report on waste from fishing operations by the Food and Agriculture Organization.

“The crisis of [overfishing] will be hard to solve,” he said. “However, collaborations between different stakeholders may help turn around some of the negative trends. This is the best issue of [the FAO fisheries report] that I have ever read.”