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-Enforce Regulations
-Safe catch limits
-Controls on bycatch
-Cut down $25 million in global government subsidies every year
-Set quotas and enforce them
-Have marine protected areas (No- take zones)
-Subsidize hook and line fishing
-This reduces bycatch.
-Overfishing subsidies total an estimated $16 billion annually
-Stop using trawlers
-Use brightly colored lines
-Streamer lines reduce bycatch. -Brightly colored lines scare away birds. Since 2002, when these lines became required, there has been a 70% reduction in seabird deaths.
-View marine animals as just as important as land ones.
- Make smart consumer choices
Solutions