One of the major issues prevailing in the fisheries and aquaculture industry in Sri Lanka is the high loss and waste of fish, and it has become necessary to introduce strategies aimed at preventing and...

Included is publicly available discard data in the last 20 years to establish a baseline of a time series of global marine fisheries discards, which is essential for monitoring the status of discard management.

The Fisheries Management and Innovation Group (previously the Discard Action Group) was set up by Seafish in 2009 to discuss industry wide problems relating to discards.

This policy has been reformed by the European Union to gradually eradicate discards from its fisheries

This article discusses various frameworks and strategies in place to reduce or eliminate bycatch.