Every year, billions of fish are caught at sea worldwide and then thrown back overboard.
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Every year, billions of fish are caught at sea worldwide and then thrown back overboard.
More than 70% of all fish thrown overboard as discards die afterwards.
In the Baltic Sea, almost no cod remains.
In the Mediterranean Sea, more than half of the fish stocks are still overfished.
Nowhere are as many animals packed together as in the Netherlands.