Earth Report : Potted Shrimp
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For every kilo of shrimp netted, up to 20 kilos of other sea creatures are needlessly killed. It's called bycatch and it makes shrimp trawling one of the most wasteful methods of fishing - harming marine life and damaging commercial fisheries. Earth Report travels to Mexico and the Philippines where the fishermen are trialling new nets and new practices that aim to drastically reduce the bycatch from shrimp fishing.