{"chart":{"title":"Share of fish catch that is discarded by type of gear used","subtitle":"Discards are animals thrown back (alive or dead) into the sea after being caught during fishing activities.\nShown is the average share of catch by each fishing method that is discarded.","note":"For some fishing methods there can be large variations in discard rates.","citation":"Pérez Roda et al. (2019)","originalChartUrl":"https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/fish-discard-rates-gear","selection":["Boat dredge","Pole-and-line","Otter twin trawl","Shrimp trawl","Longline, bottom","Longline, pelagic","Trammel net","Gillnet, bottom","Gillnet, pelagic","Purse seine","Handline"]},"columns":{"Discard rates by fishing gear":{"titleShort":"Share of fish catch that is discarded by fishing gear","titleLong":"Share of fish catch that is discarded by fishing gear","shortUnit":"%","unit":"%","timespan":"2014-2014","type":"Numeric","owidVariableId":1206819,"shortName":"discard_rates_by_fishing_gear","lastUpdated":"2021-06-01","citationShort":"Pérez Roda et al. (2019) – processed by Our World in Data","citationLong":"Pérez Roda et al. (2019) – processed by Our World in Data. “Share of fish catch that is discarded by fishing gear” [dataset]. Pérez Roda et al., “A third assessment of global marine fisheries discards” [original data].","fullMetadata":"https://api.ourworldindata.org/v1/indicators/1206819.metadata.json"}},"dateDownloaded":"2026-10-31"}