High grading
Highgrading describes the process in fisheries in which fishermen throw fish that have already been caught back into the sea in favor of later catches with more economically valuable, i.e. H. bigger fish. This is how fishermen upgrade their catch because larger fish fetch better prices on the market. Highgrading is also a way of circumventing the EU's quota requirements. Only the fish landed are included in the EU quota, but not the catches (and by-catches ) that are thrown back into the sea. The thrown back fish are mostly dead or do not survive the discard. High grading has been banned in the EU since 2009. However, since it is practically not controllable, it will continue to be carried out. The nature conservation organization WWF describes high grading as "the perfection of waste"
Web links
- EU agrees on unique high-grading ban. The fisheries secretariat, December 15, 2008, accessed April 21, 2014 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans Schuh: Finstere Fischerei. Zeit Online, April 15, 2009, accessed January 20, 2014 .
- ↑ Michelle Bayona: “Jan Maria”: fishing to order. Greenpeace, May 22, 2013, archived from the original on January 18, 2014 ; accessed on July 8, 2019 (original website no longer available).
- ↑ Trapped, caught - Unique creatures threatened by bycatch. (No longer available online.) WWF, archived from the original on April 22, 2014 ; Retrieved April 21, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
