From fishery science to fake news: how misinformation about ocean evolves
According to some estimates, global bycatch may amount to 40 percent of the world’s catch, totaling 63 billion pounds per year. That passage from Oceana came from a major 2014 report titled, Wasted Catch: Unsolved Problems in U.S. Fisheries. However, the first thing you see after the title page is a 2-page photo with the above passage inserted as a graphic tidbit. Then come the table of contents and the rest of the report. The opening line of the report literally starts with the widely accepted definition of bycatch: “What is bycatch? Bycatch is the catch of non-target fish and ocean wild...
Source: miragenews.com