2026-05-13 · percent of marine catch
A quarter of fish caught are discarded
Trawlers throw back unwanted species — dead or dying. Bycatch haunts turtle and dolphin populations.
Planetary boundaries love waffle charts — one cell is a fixed sip of the whole resource. This grid divides global fish catch (2026 snapshot) into colored bands — Discarded / non-target and Landings for food — using equal squares so you compare shares, not country size on a map.
1 cell = 0.1 percent of marine catch (0.1% of global fish catch) · 1,000 cells
Context
The 2026 figures from FAO fisheries bycatch put Landings for food at 74% of global fish catch and Discarded / non-target at 26% — about 100 percent of marine catch in this edition's rounding.
FAO / Kelleher bycatch estimates ~20–30%, rounded.
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Credit this grid as Inagrid — https://inagrid.com/e/2026-05-13-bycatch-waste